And some men calls him Dick o’ the Cow.’
6.
‘That fool has three as good kyne of his own
As is in a’ Cumberland, billie,’ quoth he;
‘Betide my life, betide my death,
These three kyne shal go to Liddisdaile with me.’
7.
Then they’re com’d on to the poor fool’s house,
And they have broken his wals so wide;
They have loos’d out Dick o’ the Cow’s kyne three,