P. 218 b, III, 502 a. ‘Barnemordersken,’ Kristensen, Jyske Folkeminder, X, 356, No 90, A, B.

219 b, 504 a, II, 500 a, III, 502 b. Add: Q, R, Hruschka u. Toischer, Deutsche Volkslieder aus Böhmen, p. 129, No 40 a, b.

220 ff. a. MS. of Thomas Wilkie, p. 4, in “Scotch Ballads, Materials for Border Minstrelsy,” No 33. “Taken down from Mrs Hislope, Gattonside. The air is plaintive and very wild.” 1813. b. “Scotch Ballads, Materials,” etc., No 113; in the hand of T. Wilkie.

1

As I looked over my father’s castle-wa,

All alone and alone, O

I saw two pretty babes playing at the ba.

Down by yone greenwood side, O

2

‘O pretty babes, if ye were mine,’