And here's to our twa sons at hame!
For they like us best in our ain country."—
"O were your son a lad like mine,
And learn'd some books that he could read,
They might hae been twa brethren bold,
And they might hae bragged the Border side.
(bragged, defied.)
"But your son's a lad, and he is but bad,
And billy to my son he canna be;"