Obtained from recitation "many years ago" wrote Mr White in 1873, by James Telfer, of Laughtree Liddesdale, in some part of the neighboring country: the copy has the date 1818. c is said by the editor to have been taken down from the recitation of an old fiddler in Northumberland, but when and by whom he does not tell us. The three are clearly more or less "corrected" copies of the same original, c having suffered most from arbitrary changes. Alterations for rhyme's sake, or for propriety's, that are written above the lines or in the margin of a 2, 5, 8, 19, are adopted in c without advertisement.
Burden. b. I the brave night sae early:
c. I the brave nights so early:
d. I (or O) the life o the one, the randy.
11. c. Brand, and always in c.
12. a. daughters.
b. He's courted.
21. c. years that tide; that tide is written over of age in a.
22. c. When sae.
42. c. But thou.