74. Between.
94. a lintseed bow (with the variant a bruchtit ewe).
101. lauchty.
104. A’ wanting.
123. teeth into.
132. sheets (no doubt erroneously). A stanza between 8 and 9 is noted as deficient, and something after 13.
303. C. In a copy of C sent Sharpe by Motherwell in a letter of December 6, 1824, the fourth stanza is lacking, the fifth is third.
32. span: years.
52. stool.
‘Knip Knap,’ taken down in the summer of 1893 by Mr Walker, of Aberdeen, at Portlethen, from the singing of an old man, as learned more than fifty years before from an old blacksmith at Dyce, near Aberdeen.