And an ill death may he die!
For he left the ewes strayed owre the knowes,
And he left naebody wi me.
11
‘But there came a tod to your bught, father,
The like o him I neer saw;
For or he had taen the bonnie lamb he took,
Ye had as weel hae gien them a’.
12
‘There came a tod to your bught, father,