14. wud awa.
22. A month but barely twa.
24. from him she wudna stay.
34. from him she will not stay.
112. For any offence that.
151. weary, weary wanderin.
After 15: Had yer tongue—I’ll buy hose and shoon for you, Had yer tongue—For your sake I’m a single man.
224. awa wi your Ogilvie.
Christie’s ballad has many of the readings of a, and a few of the editor’s. Of “two verses, as sung in the counties of Banff and Moray, hitherto unpublished,” one is in all copies except a; the other is the inept stanza (see f):
‘Oh, coarse, coarse would be the stockings,