Hoo! hoo! gar raise the Reid Souter, and Ringan's Wat, 65 Wi' a broad elshin and a wicker; I wat weil they'll mak a ford sicker. Sae, whether they be Elliots or Armstrangs, Or rough-riding Scots, or rude Johnstones, Or whether they be frae the Tarras or Ewsdale, 70 They maun turn and fight, or try the deeps o' Liddel. Fy, lads! shout a' a' a' a' a', My gear's a' ta'en. "Ah! but they will play ye anither jigg, For they will out at the big rig, 75 And thro' at Fargy Grame's gap."[L76] But I hae another wile for that: For I hae little Will, and Stalwart Wat, And lang Aicky, in the Souter Moor, Wi' his sleuth-dog sits in his watch right sure. 80 Shou'd the dog gie a bark, He'll be out in his sark, And die or won. Fy, lads! shout a' a' a' a' a', My gear's a' ta'en. 85 Ha! boys!--I see a party appearing--wha's yon? Methinks it's the Captain of Bewcastle, and Jephtha's John,[L87] Coming down by the foul steps of Catlowdie's loan: They'll make a' sicker, come which way they will. Ha, lads! shout a' a' a' a' a', 90 My gear's a' ta'en. Captain Musgrave, and a' his band,[L92] Are coming down by the Siller-strand, And the Muckle toun-bell o' Carlisle is rung: My gear was a' weel won, 95 And before it's carried o'er the Border, mony a man's gae down. Fy, lads! shout a' a' a' a' a', My gear's a' gane. 32. The badger-skin pouch was used for carrying ammunition.--S. 47. A wood in Cumberland, in which Suport is situated.--S. 76. Fergus Grame of Sowport, as one of the chief men of that clan, became security to Lord Scroope for the good behaviour of his friends and dependents, 8th January, 1662.--_Introduction to History of Westmoreland and Cumberland_, p. 111.--S. 87-8. According to the late Glenriddel's notes on this ballad, the office of Captain Bewcastle was held by the chief of the Nixons. Catlowdie is a small village in Cumberland, near the junction of the Esk and Liddel.--S. 92. This was probably the famous Captain Jack Musgrave, who had charge of the watch along the Cryssop, or Kershope, as appears from the order of the watches appointed by Lord Wharton, when Deputy-Warden-General, in the 6th Edward VI.--S. ROOKHOPE RYDE. "A Bishopric Border song, composed in 1569, taken down from the chanting of George Collingwood the elder, late of Boltsburn, in the neighbourhood of Ryhope, who was interred at Stanhope, the 16th December, 1785.