When he came out at the tolbooth-stair, He was baith red and rosy; But gin he cam to the gallows-fit, He was wallourt like the lily. * * * * * N Motherwell’s Note-Book, p. 20. I have nine children in the west, The tenth ane’s in my bodie; The eldest o them she never knew a man, And she knows not wha’s her daddy. * * * * * #A.# 4^2, 5^2. menzie. #B. a.# 8^3, 9^3, 19^2, 21^3. & _for_ an. 13^2. for _struck out before_ Your. 14^3. O _has been altered from_ If, _and is not very distinct._ 25^2. wi her? 25^3. Tell down, tell tell down. 26. _Or_, She’s put her hand to her pocket, She’s pulld out ducats many, An she’s telld down, etc. 27^1. _Var._ she blessd. 28^{3,4}. _No indication that this is an imperfect stanza. The last line is nearly bound in, and not easy to read._ 30^3. Gar print, etc. #b.# _Variations written on the margin of #a#._ 1^3. The Laird of Gigh has killd a man. 2^3. That will gae rin to the yates of Gigh. 7^1. Burntisland sands _for_ the water-side. 8^1. the water-yate. 8^3. dealt the red gold them amang. 14. ’Twas up than spak a gentleman, Was ca’d the Laird of Logie, War Gighie’s head but on the blo[ck], If I had his fair ladie!’ 21^1. the gude Argyle _for_ a Scottish lord. 21^2. He’s been a friend to many. #C. a.# “This song was taken down from a Miss Christy Robertson, Dunse, who sung it to a very pretty old tune. Being an old maid herself, she did not let it want any of the original plainture which I suppose the original air would have.” _The MS. of Thomas Wilkie is inscribed, at the beginning,_ Gattonside, 4th Sept., 1813; _at the end,_ Bowden, 2d Sept., 1815. 6^3. goud _written over_ guineas. 8^{1,2}. _Var._ six _for_ ten, seventh _for_ eleventh. 10^1. a kind-hearted man, _wanting in #b#, has evidently been supplied._ 12^{1,2}. _Supplied: originally only_ A man spoke loud. 12^3. Geordie’s _written over_ his; were _over_ had been. #b.# 2^3. shirt. 4^2. And they saddled to her. 6^3. red goud. 7^1. When she. 9^1. Geight. 10^1. a kind-hearted man _wanting_. 12^{1,2}. A man spoke loud. 13^4. my _wanting_. 14^2 And herself. #D.# 2^2. goud and money _substituted for_ hose and shoon _struck out_. 9^2. they _struck out before_ was. 18^{3–6}. _Written in two lines._ #E. b.# _No account is given of the variations of the printed copy from the manuscript, but it is presumed that the larger ones were traditional._ 1^3. And monie ane got broken heads. 2^1. she gaed.