In brough or land, wherever we meet,

Good billies we shall be.’

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‘I’ll take my pack upon my back,

And go by land or sea;

In brough or land, wherever we meet,

A rank thief I’ll call thee.’

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THE CRAFTY FARMER

a. ‘The Crafty Farmer,’ Logan, A Pedlar’s Pack, p. 126, from a chap-book of 1796; ‘The Crafty Miller,’ Maidment, Scotish Ballads and Songs, 1859, p. 208, from a Glasgow stall-copy; a stall-copy, printed by M. Randall, Stirling.