1048 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1806. 
Wi’ doors ajar, and candle light, 
And torches burning clear, 
The streikit corpse, till still midnight, 
They waked, but naething hear. 
About the middle 0’ the night, 
The cocks began to craw, 
And at the dead hour o’ the night, 
The corpse began to thraw. 
*¢ O wha has done thee wrang, Sister, 
Or dared the deadly sin ? 
Wha was sae stout, and feared nae dout, 
As thraw ye o’er the linn?” 
‘¢ Young Benjie was the first ae man, 
I laid my love upon ; 
He was sae stout and proud-hearted, 
He threw me o’ef the linn.” 
‘* Sall we young Benjie head, sister, | _ 
Sall we young Benjie hang, 
Or, sall we pike out his twa grey een, 
And punish him ere he gang? 
‘¢ Ye mauna Benjie head, brothers, 
Ye mauna Benjie hang, 
But ye maw pike out his twa grey e’en, 
And punish him e’er he gang. 
‘¢ Tic a green gravat round his neck, 
And lead him ont and in, 
And the best ae servant about your house, 
To wait young Benjie on. 
‘¢ And ay, at every seven year’s end, 
Ye’ll tak him to the Jinn ; 
For that’s the penance he thaun drie, 
To scug* his deadly sin.? 
* Seug—shelter or éxpiate. 
APOLOGY 
