Ed de Moel

Child Ballads - Additions and Corrections

68. Young Hunting

P. 145. A 22. Findlay's Manuscripts, I, 146, gives a corresponding stanza, from Miss Butchart, Arbroath:

  'Ye'll gie ower your day's doukin
An douk upon the nicht,
An the place Young Redin he lies in
The torches will brin bricht.'

148. C 21, 22. At the same place in Findlay's Manuscripts we find these stanzas, from Miss Bower:

  The firsten grasp that she got o him,
It was o his yellow hair;
O wasna that a dowie grasp,
For her that did him bear!
  The nexten grasp that she got o him,
It was o his lillie hand;
O was na that a dowie grasp,
For her brocht him to land!

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