Where there stood thirty steeds and three;
He's ta'en his ain horse amang them a',
And hame he rade sae manfully.
"Welcome, my auld father!" said Christie Graeme,
"But where sae lang frae hame were ye?"—
"It's I hae been at Carlisle town,
And a baffled man by thee I be.
"I hae been at Carlisle town,
Where Sir Robert Bewick he met me;
He says yere a lad, and ye are but bad,