Een as fast as they coud them hie;
The prisner’s brought to his ain fire-side,
And there o’s aims they make him free.
36
‘Now, Jock, my billie,’ quo a’the three,
‘The day was comd thou was to die;
But thou’s as weel at thy ain fire-side,
Now sitting, I think, tween thee and me.’
37
They hae gard fill up ae punch-bowl,