The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 1 (of 5)

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28³. Carleton sands.

29². Was dashed.

29³. The golden ring.

5. Gil Brenton.

P. [62] a, last three lines. Read: said by Lockhart to be Miss Christian Rutherford, his mother's half-sister.

[66] b, lines 2, 3. Read: 37 G, 38 A, D, and other versions of both.

[66] b, line 4. 'Bitte Mette,' Kristensen, Jyske Folkeminder, V, 57, No 7, affords another version.

[66] b, last line. For other cases of this substitution see Legrand, Recueil de Contes populaires grecs, p. 257, 'La Princesse et sa Nourrice;' Köhler, Romania, XI, 581-84, 'Le conte de la reine qui tua son sénéchal;' Neh-Manzer, ou Les Neuf Loges, conte, traduit du persan par M. Lescallier, Gènes, 1808, p. 55, 'Histoire du devin Afezzell.' (Köhler.) The last I have not seen.

[67] a, note *, line 37. Read: a Scotch name.

84 b. The same artifice is tried, and succeeds, in a case of birth delayed by a man's clasping his hands round his knees, in Asbjørnsen, Norske Huldre-Eventyr, I, 20, 2d ed.