[CXLII]
First published in Cromek’s Remains of Nithisdale and Galloway Song (1810), when the author was a working mason.
[CXLIII]
Johnson’s Musical Museum, vol. iii. (1790). A similar song, The Clans are Coming, is included in Ritson’s Scottish Songs (1794).
[CXLIV]
Collected Works, edited by William Anderson (1851). I have found many versions of this old song, but none to equal Gilfillan’s.
[CXLV]–[CXLVI]
Both from Songs of Travel (Chatto & Windus, 1896). By permission of Charles Baxter, Esq., executor of the author.
The second was written at Vailima, Samoa, and is addressed ‘To S. R. Crockett, Esq.’ The author writes from Vailima to Mr. Crockett (May 17, 1893):—‘I shall never set my foot again upon the heather. Here I am until I die, and here will I be buried. The word is out, and the doom written.’—Letters, vol. ii. p. 287 (Methuen & Co., 1899).
l. 3. Whaups. Curlews.
11. Peewees. Lapwings.