[G].
After my niece, M. Kinnear, etc., stands in pencil Christy Smith.
15. On the opposite page, over against this stanza, is written:
But part by richt, or part be wrang,
The auldman's duddie cloak he's on.
G and H are printed by Kinloch and by Buchan in four-line stanzas.
The stanzas printed by Motherwell, which have not been found in his manuscripts, are:
10
Seven lang years he has been on the sea,
And Hynd Horn has looked how his ring may be.
21
The auld beggar man cast off his coat,
And he's taen up the scarlet cloak.
22
The auld beggar man threw down his staff,
And he has mounted the good gray steed.
29
She went to the gate where the auld man did stand,
And she gave him a drink out of her own hand.