‘What did she wi the fishie’s banes?’
‘The wee black dog gat them to eat.’
4
‘What did the wee black doggie then?’
‘He shot out his fittie an deed;
An sae maun I now too, too.’ Etc.
“The wee crooding doo next received a fatal drink, and syne a lullaby, when his bed was made ‘baith saft an fine,’ while his lang fareweel and dying lamentation was certainly both trying and afflicting to the loving parents.” The drink after the fish was a senseless interpolation; the ‘lang fareweel’ was probably the testament of the longer ballad.
500. The title of Q in the MS. is ‘Lord Randal;’ of R, ‘Little wee toorin dow.’
14. Babylon, or, The Bonnie Banks o Fordie.
P. 171 a. Danish. ‘Herr Tures Døtre,’ Kristensen, Jyske Folkeminder, X, 294, No 72.