2 'I 've been at my step-mammie's, my step-mammie's, my step-mammie's, I 've been at my step-mammie's; come mack my beddy now!' 3 'What got ye at yer step-mammie's, My little wee croudlin doo?' 4 'She gied me a spreckled fishie; Come mack my beddy now!' 5 'What did ye wi the baenies oet, My little wee croudlin doo?' 6 'I gaed them till her little dogie; Come mack my beddy now!' 7 'What did her little dogie syne, My little wee croudlin doo?' 8 'He laid down his heed and feet; And sae shall I dee now!' O From a manuscript collection, copied out in 1840 or 1850, by a granddaughter of Alexander Fraser-Tytler, p. 67. 1 'O where hae ye been a' the day, my wee wee croodlin doo doo? O where hae ye been a' the day, my bonnie wee croodlin doo?' 'O I hae been to my step-mammie's; mak my bed, mammy, noo, noo, Mak my bed, mammy, noo!' 2 'O what did yere step-mammie gie to you?' etc. 'She gied to me a wee wee fish,' etc. 3 '[O] what did she boil the wee fishie in?' 'O she boiled it in a wee wee pan; it turned baith black an blue, blue, It turned baith black an blue.' 4 'An what did she gie the banes o't to?' 'O she gied them to a wee wee dog;' mak, etc. 5 'An what did the wee wee doggie do then?' 'O it put out its tongue and its feet, an it deed; an sae maun I do noo, noo, An sae maun I do noo!' * * * * * #C.# 4^2. your father, King Henry, my son. #I. a.# 1^4. _~faint to~, an obvious corruption of ~fain to~, is found also in #b#, #c#; #d# has fain wad; #e#, ~faint~ or ~fain~; #f#, ~fain~; #g#, ~I faint to~. N. B. 8 stands 5 in the MS. copy, but is the last stanza in all others which have it._ #b.# 2^1. for your dinner. _After 2 follows_: Who cooked you the eels, Tiranti, my son? etc. O 't was my grandmother; mother, make my bed soon, etc. #b# 5==#a# 3: ^1. Where did she get the, eels? etc. ^3. By the side of the haystack, etc. #b# 6==#a# 7 : 7==#a# 8 : 8==#a# 5. 8^4. and die to lie down. #a# is wanting in_ #b#. #c.# 1^4. at my heart (_and always_). 2^1. O what did she give you? _etc._ 2^3. Striped eels fried, etc. 3==#a# 4. 3^1. O how did they look? etc. 3^3. Ringed, streaked, and speckled, etc. 4==#a# 3. 4^1. O where did they come from? 5^1. O what will you give your father, my son? 5^2. O what will you give him? 5^3. A coach and six horses. 6^1. O what will you give your mother, my son? _as in 5._ 6^3. All my gold and my silver. 7^1. O what will you give your granny? _as in 5._ 8^1. O where'll, etc. #c# _adds, as 9_: