THE LAIRD O' DRUM. After Aytoun's collated version. Copies obtained from recitation are given by Kinloch and Buchan. The eccentric Laird o' Drum was an actual personage, who, in the seventeenth century, mortified his aristocratic relatives and delighted the commons by marrying a certain Margaret Coutts, a woman of lowly rank, his first wife having been a daughter of the Marquis of Huntly. The old shepherd speaks in the Aberdeen dialect. _Weel-faur'd_, well-favored. _Gin_, if. _Speer_, ask. _Kebbuck_, cheese. _Yetts_, gates. _Gawsy_, portly. _But the pearlin' abune her bree_, without the lace above her brow. LIZIE LINDSAY. After Jamieson. Complete copies are given by Buchan and Whitelaw, also. _Till_, to. _Braes_, hills. _Fit_, foot. _Gin_, if. _Tocher_, dowry. _Gait_, way. _Wale_, choice. _Dey_, dairy-woman. _Laverock_, lark. _Liltin'_, carolling. _Shealin'_, sheep-shed. _Gaits and kye_, goats and cows. KATHARINE JANFARIE. Mainly after Motherwell's version entitled _Catherine Johnstone_. Other renderings are given by Scott, Maidment, and Buchan. In Scott's version the name of the English suitor is Lord Lochinvar, and both name and story the thieving poet has turned, as everybody knows, to excellent account. The two closing stanzas here seem to betray the hand of an English balladist. _Weel-faur'd_, well-favored. _Lave_, rest. _Spier'd_, asked. _Brae_, hill. GLENLOGIE. After Smith's version in the _Scottish Minstrel_,--a book wherein "great liberties," Motherwell claims, have been taken with ancient lays. A rough but spirited version is given by Sharpe, and a third by Buchan. _Gar_, make. _His lane_, alone. GET UP AND BAR THE DOOR. After Herd. This ballad appears, too, in Johnson's _Museum_ and Ritson's _Scottish Songs_. _Martinmas_, the eleventh of November. _Intil_, into. _Hussyskep_, house-keeping. _Bree_, broth. _Scaud_, scald. THE LAWLANDS O' HOLLAND. After Herd. Another version, longer and poorer, occurs in Johnson's _Museum_. _Withershins_, the wrong way. _Twinned_, parted. THE TWA CORBIES. After Scott, who received it from Mr. C. K. Sharpe, "as written down, from tradition, by a lady." This seems to be the Scottish equivalent of an old English poem, _The Three Ravens_, given by Ritson in his _Ancient Songs_. _Corbies_, ravens. _Fail_, turf. _Kens_, knows. _Hause_, neck. _Pyke_, pick. _Theek_, thatch. HELEN OF KIRCONNEL. After Scott. Other versions are given by Herd, Ritson, and Jamieson. There is said to be a traditional basis for the ballad, and the grave of the lovers, Adam Fleming and Helen Irving (or Helen Bell), is still pointed out in the churchyard of Kirconnell, near Springkell. _Burd_, lady.