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‘If I was swift as any swallow,

And then had wings to fly,

I could fly on to fause Frendraught

And cry vengeance till I die.’


C

From a note-book of Dr Joseph Robertson: “procured in the parish of Forgue by A. Scott; communicated to me by Mr John Stuart, Aberdeen, 11 October, 1832.”

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It was in October the woe began—