304. brought home a son.
31=a 31, 32.
Then out it spake Lord John's mother,
As she stood on the stair,
'I think I hear a woman groan,
And a bairn greeting sair.'
32=a 33.
1. O quickly, quickly raise he up.
3. But hied him to the stable-door.
33, wanting in a.
'Now open the door, Bird Ellen,' he says,
'O open and let me in,
Or baith the door and the door cheeks
Into the floor I'll fling.'
34. He is struck the door wi his right foot
And pushed it wi his knee,
Till iron bolts and iron bars
In flinders he has gard flee:
'Be not afraid, Bird Ellen,' he says,
'For there's nane win in but me.'