Or were they lang gane or the dawing?

O had you any strangers here late last night?

We are now come to clear up his lawing.’

9

‘O I had a stranger here late last night,

But he was lang gane or the dawing;

He called for a pint, and he paid it as he went,

And ye’ve no more to do with his lawing.’

10

‘O show me the room that your stranger lay in,