_Mr Christie has "~epitomized~" Buchan's copy (omitting stanzas 9-12), with these few slight alterations from the singing of a Banffshire woman, who died in 1860, at the age of nearly eighty_: _Burden_: It's hey, etc. 2^2. And he courted the eldest wi mony other thing. 3^1. But it fell. 5^2. And the eldest. #P. b.# _This stanza only_: There livd twa sisters in a bower, Hey my bonnie Annie O There cam a lover them to woo. And the swan swims bonnie O, And the swan swims bonnie O #Q.# _The burden is given thus in ~Pop. Tales of the West Highlands~, IV, 125_: Oh ochone, ochone a rie, On the banks of the Banna, ochone a rie. #R. a.# _The title '~The Three Sisters,~' and perhaps the first stanza, belongs rather to ~No 1 #A#, #B#, p. 3f.~_ #b.# 1. A farmer there lived in the north countree, Bo down And he had daughters one, two, three. And I'll be true unto my love, if he'll be true unto me (_The burden is given as ~Bo down, bo down~, etc., in ~Popular Tales of the West Highlands~, IV, 125._) _Between 1 and 2 #b# has_: The eldest she had a lover come, And he fell in love with the younger one. He bought the younger a ... The elder she thought ... 3. _wanting._ 4^1. The sisters they walkt by the river brim. 6^2. my true love. 8. The miller's daughter was at the door, As sweet as any gillyflower. 9. O father, O father, there swims a swain, And he looks like a gentleman. 10. The miller he fetcht his line and hook, And he fisht the fair maiden out of the brook. 11^1. O miller, I'll give you guineas ten, 12. The miller he took her guineas ten, And then he popt her in again. 13^1. ... behind his back gate, 13^2. the farmer's daughter Kate. _Instead of 14_: The sister she sailed over the sea, And died an old maid of a hundred and three. The lover became a beggar man, And he drank out of a rusty tin can. #b# _8, 11, 12, 14, 15 are cited in ~Popular Tales of the West Highlands~, IV, 127._ #c.# 1. A varmer he lived in the west countree, Hey-down, bow-down A varmer he lived in the west countree, And he had daughters one, two, and dree. And I'll be true to my love, If my love'll be true to me. 2, 3. _wanting._ 4^1. As thay wur walking by the river's brim. 5^1. pray gee me thy hand. 7^1. So down she sank and away she swam.