Ed de Moel

Child Ballads - Brief Description by George Lyman Kittredge

189. Hobie Noble

Hobie Noble, though banished from Bewcastle for his irregularities, will always command the hearty liking of those who live too late to suffer from them, on account of his gallant bearing in the rescue of Jock o the Side (No, 187); see especially A, of which Hobie is the hero. All that we know of him is so much as we are told in that ballad and in this.

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