It’s there they baith sat doun.

9

Till up she raise, took up her milk-pails,

And away gaed she hame;

Up bespak her auld father,

‘It’s whare hae ye been sae lang?’

10

‘This is a mark and a misty nicht,

Ye may gang to the door and see;

The ewes hae taen a skipping out-oure the knows,