They might [have] been calld two bold brethren,
They might have crackd the Border-side.
5
‘Thy son is bad, and is but a lad,
And bully to my son cannot be;
For my son Bewick can both write and read,
And sure I am that cannot he.’
6
‘I put him to school, but he would not learn,
I bought him books, but he would not read;