"Brother, we must awa'."
11. "The cock doth craw, the day doth daw.
The channerin[125] worm doth chide;
Gin we be mist out o' our place,
A sair pain we maun bide."
12. "Fare ye weel, my mother dear!
Fareweel to barn and byre!
And fare ye weel, the bonny lass
That kindles my mother's fire!"
[118] Old woman.
[119] Lockhart's clever emendation for the fishes of the Ms. Fashes = disturbances, storms.
[120] November 11th. Another version gives the time as "the hallow days of Yule."
[121] Birch.
[122] Marsh.
[123] Furrow, ditch.
[124] In folk-lore, the break of day is announced to demons and ghosts by three cocks,--usually a white, a red, and a black; but the colors, and even the numbers, vary. At the third crow, the ghosts must vanish. This applies to guilty and innocent alike; of course, the sons are "spirits of health."
[125] Fretting.