32^1. And bid her your boy's christening to. 33^1. a little away. 33^2. To notice weel what she may saye. 35^2. That were amang. 38^2. And let. 39^1. Syne Willie. 40^2. That were into. 41^1, 42^1, 43^1. And he. 41^2. Hung atween her bour and the witch carline. 44^2. a bonny son. #b.# _Divided in Jamieson's MS. into stanzas of four verses, two verses being written in one line: but Jamieson's_ 8==#a# 14-16. 1^1. Sweet Willy's taen. 5-11, _wanting. Instead of the cup, the girdle occurs here_:==#a# 21-28. 12^1. He did him till. 12^2. wilest kin. 13^1. An said, My lady. 14^{1, 2}. he is. 16^2. An lat her be lighter o her young bairn. 18^1. go to clay. #a# 21^1==b 5^1. Now to his mither he has gane. 18^2. kin. #a# 22^1==b 6^1. He say[s] my lady. 22^2. It's a' red. #a# 23^1==b 7^1. at ilka. 23^2. Hings. #a# 24^1==b 8^1. gift sall be your ain. 24^2. lat her ... o her. #a# 29==b 22. Then out it spake the belly blin; She spake ay in a good time. #a# 32==b 25, 26. An do you to your mither then, An bid her come to your boy's christnen; For dear's the boy he's been to you: Then notice well what she shall do. _Between #a# 33 and #a# 34 occurs in #b# (28-31)_: He did him to the market place, An there he bought a loaf o wax. He shap'd it bairn and bairnly like, An in't twa glazen een he pat. He did him till his mither then, An bade him (_sic_) to his boy's christnen. An he did stan a little forebye, An notic'd well what she did say. #a# 35^2==#b# 33^2. hang amo. 36. _wanting in #b#._ 37^2. aneath. 39^2==#b# 36^2. hang amo his. 40^1. kemb o care. 40^2. his lady's. 41. _wanting in #b#._ 42^2==#b# 38^2. ran aneath his. 44. _wanting in #b#._ #b# _22^2 makes the Billy Blind feminine. This is not so in #a#, or in any other ballad, and may be only an error of the transcriber, who has not always written carefully._ [102] The Jamieson-Brown copy contains seventy-eight verses; Scott's and the Tytler copy, eighty-eight. Dr Anderson's, Nichols's Illustrations, VII, 176, counts seventy-six instead of eighty-eight; but, judging by the description which Anderson has given of the Alexander-Fraser-Tytler-Brown MS., at p. 179, he is not exact. Still, so large a discrepancy is hard to explain. [103] The sister does this in #F-I# and #S#: in #O#, #P#, the husband "has" it done.