Child Ballads - Additions and Corrections

217. The Broom of Cowdenknows

P. 192. Mrs. Greenwood, of London, had heard (presumably at Longnewton, near Jedburgh) "the old Cowdenknows, where, instead of the Laird of the Oakland hills, it is the Laird of the Hawthorn-wide." Letters addressed to Sir W. Scott, I, No 189, May 27, [1806.]

To be Corrected in the Print.

201 b, 26³. Read kye.

202 a, K 2². Read It is.

207 a, 20². Read them a' out.

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