"I wad lourd have had a winding-sheet, And helped to put it ower his head, 170 Ere he had been disgraced by the Border Scot, Whan he ower Liddel his men did lead!" There was a wild gallant amang us a', His name was Watty wi' the Wudspurs, Cried--"On for his house in Stanegirthside,[L175] 175 If ony man will ride with us!" When they cam to the Stanegirthside, They dang wi' trees, and burst the door; They loosed out a' the Captain's kye, And set them forth our lads before. 180 There was an auld wyfe ayont the fire, A wee bit o' the Captain's kin-- "Whae dar loose out the Captain's kye, Or answer to him and his men?" "It's I, Watty Wudspurs, loose the kye, 185 I winna layne my name frae thee; And I will loose out the Captain's kye, In scorn of a' his men and he." Whan they cam to the fair Dodhead, They were a wellcum sight to see; 190 For instead of his ain ten milk kye, Jamie Telfer has gotten thirty and three. And he has paid the rescue shot, Baith wi' goud and white monie; And at the burial o' Willie Scott, 195 I wat was mony a weeping ee.[L196] 6-8. Hardhaughswire is the pass from Liddesdale to the head of Teviotdale. Borthwick water is a stream which falls into the Teviot three miles above Hawick.--S. 11. The Dodhead, in Selkirkshire, near Singlee, where there are still the vestiges of an old tower.--S. 28. Stobs Hall, upon Slitterick, the seat of Sir William, of that clan. Jamie Telfer made his first application here, because he _seems_ to have paid the proprietor of the castle _black-mail_, or protection money.--S. 37. The ancient family-seat of the Lairds of Buccleuch, near Hawick.--S. 45-48. See _Young Beichan_, vol. iv. p. 3. 51. The Coultart Cleugh is nearly opposite to Carlinrig, on the road between Hawick and Mosspaul.--S. 97. The _water_, in the mountainous districts of Scotland, is often used to express the banks of the river, which are the only inhabitable parts of the country. _To raise the water_, therefore, was to alarm those who lived along its side.--S. 101. The estates, mentioned in this verse, belonged to families of the name of Scott, residing upon the waters of Borthwick and Teviot, near the castle of their chief.--S. 105. The pursuers seem to have taken the road through the hills of Liddesdale, in order to collect forces, and intercept the forayers at the passage of the Liddel, on their return to Bewcastle. The Ritterford and Kershope-ford, after-mentioned, are noted fords on the river Liddel.--S. 113. The Frostylee is a brook, which joins the Teviot, near Mosspaul.--S. 143. The Dinlay is a mountain in Liddesdale.--S.