Ed de Moel

Child Ballads - End-Notes

The Kitchie-Boy

A.  Written in long couplets.
81. hadne.
224, 324. ance hane? Cf. 34.
232. I lee.
352. got no.
B.  112. yellow in.
C.  142. glaned. Giant, glent is probably intended. Glancd is less likely.
204. could. Manuscript possibly would.
E.  Before 1:
"A lady falls in love with her father's kitchie-boy when her father is absent, and to conceal him from him procures a ship and puts him to sea. Her father thinks he has run away."
After 7: She kills herself.
After 16: Continued on page:       but not continued.

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