10^1. Gae saddle to me five.
10^2. Gae saddle and.
10^4. For I’m gaing to.
11.
And when they came to auld Fedderate
He found her waiting ready,
And he brought her to Castle Aboyne,
And now she’s his ain dear lady.
#B.#
9^1. he gett.
10^1. He gat.
#D.#
_There is an initial stanza which, it seems to me, cannot have
belonged originally to this ballad_:
‘My father he feet me far, far away,
He feet me in Kirkcaldy;
He feet me till an auld widow-wife,
But she had a bonnie rantin laddie.’
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