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,