Was riding that way most hastily.

(jacky coat of mail. belive, soon.)

"O wha is yon, that came this way,

Sae hastily that hither came?

I think it be my brother dear,

I think it be young Christie Græme.

"Yere welcome here, my billy dear,

And thrice ye're welcome unto me! "—

"But I'm wae to say, I've seen the day,

When I am come to fight wi' thee.