It is unnecessary to give here any detailed account of Scott's procedure, as the matter has been thoroughly worked out by students of ballads. A few examples may be given as illustrations, however. In _The Dowie Dens of Yarrow_ (Henderson's edition, Vol. III, p. 173) 28 lines out of the 68 are noted by Mr. Henderson as either changed or added by Scott. Scott writes (beginning of fifth stanza), "As he gaed up the Tennies bank" for "As he gaed up yon high, high hill," and we find from a note of Lockhart's that _The Tennies_ is the name of a farm belonging to the Duke of Buccleuch. In the sixth stanza Scott changes the lines, "O ir ye come to drink the wine As we hae done before, O?" to "O come ye here to part your land, The bonnie forest thorough?" In the seventeenth stanza he changes, "A better rose will never spring Than him I've lost on Yarrow?" to "A fairer rose did never bloom Than now lies cropp'd on Yarrow." In _Jellon Grame_ (Vol. III, p. 203), Mr. Henderson notes changes in 15 different lines, and points out 2 whole stanzas, out of the 21, that are interpolated. In the _Gay Goss-hawk_ (Vol. III, p. 187) 6 stanzas out of 39 are noted as probably wholly or mainly by Scott, and 30 stanzas were changed by him. Sometimes his alterations occurred in every line of a stanza. It is probable that Scott changed _Jamie Telfer_ enough to make the Scotts take the place of prominence that had been held by the Elliotts in the original form of the story. See _The Trustworthiness of Border Ballads as Exemplified by 'Jamie Telfer i' the Fair Dodhead' and other Ballads_; by Lieut.-Col. the Hon. Fitzwilliam Elliott. Reviewed in _Edinburgh Review_, No. 418, p. 306 (October, 1906).] [Footnote 51: See the examples given in the preceding note. Most of the changes there spoken of were made without annotation.] [Footnote 52: This extraordinary young man was poet and scholar on his own account by 1800, though he was four years younger than Scott. His erudition in many fields was remarkable, and he was as enthusiastic as Scott himself about Scotch poetry, and was the chief assistant in gathering ballads for the _Minstrelsy_. He also collected the material for the essay on Fairies in the second volume, which was especially praised by the reviewer in the _Edinburgh Review_ (January, 1803). Leyden's chief fame was derived from his wonderfully varied activities in India, from 1803 to his early death in 1811. Any reader of Lockhart's _Life of Scott_ or of Scott's delightful little memoir, published first in the _Edinburgh Annual Register_ for 1811, and included in the _Miscellaneous Prose Works_, must feel that the uncouth young genius is a familiar acquaintance.]