Ed de Moel

Child Ballads - End-Notes

A.  12. Var. to the chase.
103. "As to Kirk-land, my copy has only kirk-yard, till the last verse, where land has been added from conjecture." Sharpe's Ballad-Book, p. 56.
D.  13, 23. o Warslin.
F.  133. tell me free.
Motherwell has Scotticised the spelling.
94. Motherwell has leave.
111, 121, 131 141. Motherwell, speirs at thee.
233. Motherwell has my ae brother.
G. b.  1. Jack and William was gone to school,
      One fine afternoon;
Jack says to William, Will you try a fight?
      Do not throw no stones.

2. Jack took out his little penknife,
      The end of it was sharp,
He stuck it through his brother's heart,
      And the blood was teeming down.

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