He coost a wap on Wanton’s nose,

And tyed her to his ain mear’s tail.

10

He ca’d her through at the bye-yett,

Through mony a syre and mony a hole;

She never loot Wanton licht till she

Was at Lochmaben, at her foal.

11

And she came oer Lochmaben heights,

Wi mony a nicker and mony a sneeze,