P. 66. B a. A copy of this version in C.K. Sharpe's papers, "written from recitation in Nithisdale, November, 1814," shows that improvements had been introduced by two hands, one of them Sharpe's, neither of them the writer's. The changes are of no radical importance; simply of the familiar kind which almost every editor has, for some reason, felt himself called upon to make. It may be thought that they are no more worth indicating than they were worth making, but it has been an object in this book to give things exactly as they were delivered. The original readings are as follows.
73.
Communicated to the Journal of The Gypsy Society, II, 85, by Mr. John Sampson, from the dictation of Lias Robinson, a Gypsy. A translation into Gypsy, by Robinson and his brothers, is given at p. 84 of the same.
From a small Manuscript volume, "Songs," entirely in C.K. Sharpe's handwriting, p. 32 (corresponding to B 11, D 6, E 7.)
P. 61 ff., V, 252. The three stanzas which follow are given in H.A. Kennedy's "Professor Blackie: his Sayings and Doings, London, 1895" as they were sung by Marion Stodart, Professor Blackie's aunt, to her sister's children. P. 12 f. (Communicated by Mr. David MacRitchie, of Edinburgh.)
"On the discovery of which the earl 'saddled to him his milk-white steed,' and rested not till he had hanged the seven gypsies on a tree."
O at the end of the second and the fourth verse of each stanza.
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