F. a.

“Mrs Dickson says her mother used to say she has heard her (her mother’s) grandmother sing the following ballad with great glee. Air, Boyne Water.”

93,4, 10 are given as one stanza, the last two lines “instead of repeat.”

O is appended throughout.

b.

Variations given only in part.

O is appended as in D, E.

Begins:

The laird o the Drum a hunting went,

One morning very early,