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There was an auld wife ayont the fire, A wee bit o’ the captain’s kin— “Wha daur loose out the captain’s kye, Or answer to him and his men?” “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.” When 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.

The Dodhead of the poem is _not_ that near Singlee, in Ettrick, but a place of the same name, near Skelfhill, on the southern side of Teviot, within three miles of Stobs, where Telfer vainly seeks help from Elliot.

Geordie, used to more tumultuous and irregular gatherings, where any man with a good horse and serviceable weapons was welcome to join the raid, had not reckoned on such a review of the party as was made by the old warrior accustomed to more regular warfare, and who made each of his eight lances--namely, the two Andrew Drummonds, Jock of the Glen, Jockie of Braeside, Willie and Norman Armstrong, Wattie Wudspurs, and Tam Telfer--answer to their names, and show up their three followers.

CONTENTS PAGE SCOTT AND THE BALLADS 1 AULD MAITLAND 18 THE BALLAD OF OTTERBURNE 53 SCOTT’S TRADITIONAL COPY AND HOW HE EDITED IT 67 THE MYSTERY OF THE BALLAD OF JAMIE TELFER 87 KINMONT WILLIE 126 CONCLUSIONS 148 SCOTT AND THE BALLADS IT was through his collecting and editing of _The Border Minstrelsy_ that Sir Walter Scott glided from law into literature.

But of the most famous of Border historical ballads, _Kinmont Willie_, and its companion, _Jamie Telfer of the Fair Dodhead_, Scott has left no original manuscript texts.