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88 AKCHIB OF CA'FIELD.
" Now, Jock, my billie," quo' a' the three, " The day was com'd thou was to die;
But thou's as weel at thy ain fire-side,
Now sitting, I think, 'tween thee and me."
They hae gard fill up ae punch-bowl, iu
And after it they maun hae anither,
And thus the night they a' hae spent,
Just as they had been brither and brither. |
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ARCHIE OP CA'FIELD. Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, ii. 116.
This is substantially the same story as Jock o' the Side. Another version from Motherwell's collection is subjoined.
" Ca'neld, or Calfield," says Scott, " is a place in Wauchopdale, belonging of old to the Armstrongs. In the account betwixt the English and Scottish Marches, Jock and Geordie of Ca'neld, then called Calf-hill, are repeatedly marked as delinquents. History of Westmoreland and Cumberland, vol. i. Introduction, p. S3."
As I was a-walking mine alane, It was by the dawning of the day,
I heard twa brithers make their mane, And I listen'd weel to what they did say. |
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