52. An tell fare layes yer.
72. An he leed.
102 (72). his.
103 (73). An tho.
104 (74). I wad gie them a’.
200. The Gypsy Laddie.
P. 66. B a. A copy of this version in C. K. Sharpe’s papers, “written from recitation in Nithisdale, November, 1814,” shows that improvements had been introduced by two hands, one of them Sharpe’s, neither of them the writer’s. The changes are of no radical importance; simply of the familiar kind which almost every editor has, for some reason, felt himself called upon to make. It may be thought that they are no more worth indicating than they were worth making, but it has been an object in this book to give things exactly as they were delivered. The original readings are as follows.
11. C for Cassilis throughout.
13, so.
14. Till.