O sleepst thou, wakest thow, dear billie?’

‘I sleep but saft, I waken oft,

For the morn’s the day that I man die.’

12

‘Be o good cheer now, Archie lad,

Be o good cheer now, dear billie;

Work thow within and I without,

And the morn thou’s dine at Cafield wi me.’

13

‘O work, O work, Archie?’ he cries,