That scarcely now would fell a mouse.

7

The moon was up and the sun was down,

’Twas the gryming of a new-fa’n snaw;

Jamie Telfer has run eight miles barefoot

Between Dodhead and Branxholm Ha.

8

And when he came to Branxholm Ha

He shouted loud and cry’d well he,

Till up bespake then auld Buccleugh,