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They howded her, and they showded her,
Till the auld wife gat a fa,
And three ribs o the auld wife’s side
Gaed knip-knap ower in twa.
D
Kinloch MSS, I, 276; from Alexander Kinnear, of Stonehaven.
1
‘My father he locks the doors at nicht,
My mither the keys carries ben, ben;