19. He's taken out his wee penknife, Hey how bonnie And he's twined her o her ain sweet life. On the, etc. #c.# _The first stanza, only_: There were three sisters livd in a bower, Fair Annet and Margaret and Marjorie And they went out to pu a flower. And the dew draps off the hyndberry tree #B. a.# "To a wild melancholy old tune not in any collection." "N.B. There are a great many other verses which I could not recover. Upon describing her brothers, the banished man finds that he has killed his two brothers and two sisters,--upon which he kills himself." _Herd._ 2^2. _MS._ Quhen. 4^1, 4^2, 5^2, 12^1, 12^2, 13^2, 14^2. ye, your, yet, _MS._ ze, zour, zet. _8, 9, 10 are not written out._ #b.# "Of this I have got only 14 stanzas, but there are many more. It is a horrid story. The banished man discovers that he has killed two of his brothers and his three (?) sisters, upon which he kills himself." _Jamieson_. _The first two stanzas only are cited by Jamieson_. 1^1. three sisters. 2^2. up there started. #C.# _7-11 and 12^2 are not written out in the MS._ "Repeat as to the second sister, mutatis mutandis." _Motherwell._ #D#. _9-13 are not written out in the MS._ "Same as 1st sister." _Motherwell._ 14^2. bring her. _15,16 are not written out._ "Same as 1st and 2d sisters, but this additional, viz^t." _M._ 22^2. longe, _or_ large? [156] Lyngbye insists on translating _vadlarar_ pilgrims, though his people understood the word to mean robbers. He refers to the Icelandic vallari, which, originally a pilgrim, came to mean a tramp. No one can fail to recognize the character who has become the terror of our rural districts, and to whom, in our preposterous regard for the rights of "man," we sacrifice the peace, and often the lives, of women. 15 LEESOME BRAND #A.# 'Leesome Brand.' #a.# Buchan's Ballads of the North of Scotland, I, 38. #b.# Motherwell's MS., p. 626. #B.# 'The Broom blooms bonnie,' etc., Motherwell's MS., p. 365. This is one of the cases in which a remarkably fine ballad has been worse preserved in Scotland than anywhere else. Without light from abroad we cannot fully understand even so much as we have saved, and _with_ this light comes a keen regret for what we have lost.