She sent him a pistol for each hand,

And bade him shoot when he gat free.

When he came to the tolbooth stair,

There he let his volley flee;

It made the king in his chamber start,

E'en in the bed where he might be.

"Gae out, gae out, my merrymen a',

"And bid Carmichael come speak to me;

"For I'll lay my life the pledge o' that,

"That yon's the shot o' young Logie."