And he’s followed her by and by.”@
Buchan notes, I, 319, that Motherwell had sent him a ballad “somewhat similar in incident,” taken down from the recitation of an old woman in or near Paisley.
This was perhaps a copy of which the first stanza is entered in Motherwell’s Note-Book, p. 55:
When I gade doun to Colliestoun,
Some white-fish for to buy, buy,
The cannie clarkie follows me,
And he follows me spedily, -ly.
Or the ballad called ‘Ricadoo’ in the Appendix to Motherwell’s Minstrelsy, p. xxiii, No 29, where this first stanza is given:
The farmer’s daughter gade to the market,
Some white-fish for to buy;