MS. of Alexander Laing, 1829, p. 25.
'O what did the fray begin about?
My son, come tell to me:'
'It began about the breaking o the bonny hazel wand,
And a penny wad hae bought the tree.'
[A]. b.
14. tell to me O. And so every fourth line.
74. That would never hae been a tree O.
104. And she'll never get mair frae me O.
113. The weary warld to wander up and down.
[B].
Initial qu for w and z for y have been changed throughout to w and y.