But the buttons off her clothes did flee.

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‘The linnet is a bonnie bird,

And aften flees far frae its nest;

So all the warld may plainly see

They’re far awa that I luve best.’


J

Motherwell’s MS., p. 299; from the recitation of Rebecca Dunse, a native of Galloway, 4 May, 1825. “A song of her mother’s, an old woman.”

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