44 There was a wild gallant amang us a’, His name was Watty wi the Wudspurs, Cried, On for his house in Stanegirthside, If ony man will ride with us! 45 When they cam to the Stanegirthside, They dang wi trees and burst the door; They loosed out a’ the Captain’s kye, And set them forth our lads before. 46 There was an auld wyfe ayont the fire, A wee bit o the Captain’s kin: ‘Whae dar loose out the Captain’s kye, Or answer to him and his men?’ 47 ‘It’s I, Watty Wudspurs, loose the kye, I winna layne my name frae thee; And I will loose out the Captain’s kye In scorn of a’ his men and he.’ 48 Whan they cam to the Fair Dodhead, They were a wellcum sight to see, For instead of his ain ten milk-kye, Jamie Telfer has gotten thirty and three. 49 And he has paid the rescue-shot, Baith wi gowd and white monie, And at the burial o Willie Scott I wat was mony a weeping ee. * * * * * 28^1, 32^4, 38^4. Scots, Scot. _In the last edition_, Scotts, Scott. 29^4. drivand _in the later edition_. 31^4. cauf in _the later edition_. 37^1. gan _in the later edition_. 40. “The Editor has used some freedom with the original. The account of the Captain’s disaster (teste læva vulnerata) is rather too naive for literal publication.” 191 HUGHIE GRAME #A.# ‘The Life and Death of Sir Hugh of the Grime.’ #a.# Roxburghe Ballads, II, 294. #b.# Douce Ballads, II, 204 b. #c.# Rawlinson Ballads, 566, fol. 9. #d.# Pills to purge Melancholy, VI, 289, 17. #e.# Roxburghe Ballads, III, 344. #B.# ‘Hughie Graham,’ Johnson’s Museum, No 303, p. 312; Cromek, Reliques of Robert Burns, 4th ed., 1817, p. 287; Cromek, Select Scottish Songs, 1810, II, 151. #C.# ‘Hughie the Græme,’ Scott’s Minstrelsy, 1803, III, 85; 1833, III, 107. #D.# ‘Sir Hugh in the Grime’s Downfall,’ Roxburghe Ballads, III, 456, edited by J. F. Ebsworth for The Ballad Society, VI, 598. #E.# ‘Sir Hugh the Græme,’ Buchan’s MSS, I, 53; Dixon, Scottish Traditional Versions of Ancient Ballads, p. 73, Percy Society, vol. xvii. #F.# Macmath MS., p. 79, two stanzas. #G.# ‘Hughie Grame,’ Harris MS., fol. 27 b, one stanza.