Ed de Moel

Child Ballads - Brief Description by George Lyman Kittredge

264. The White Fisher

To make this story hang together at all, we must suppose that the third and fourth stanzas are tropical, and that Willie was the priest; or else that they are sarcastic, and are uttered in bitter resentment of Willie's suspicion, or affected suspicion.

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