LIZZIE STOEEY. 



Fair flow'rets o' the rainbow's hue, 

 The wild rose, go wan, an' violet blue, 

 Bloom by thy water's gladsome din, 

 Thou bonnie, bonnie Blackburn Linn. 



The lavrock spreads his dewy wings, 

 An o'er thy dusky bosom sings, 

 The spangled trout wi' quivering fin 

 Sport in thy streamlet, Blackburn Linn. 



The otter kens a hame in thou, 

 The wily fox and foumart too, 

 Thy rugged rocks they shelter in, 

 Thou bonnie, bonnie Blackburn Linn. 



The subject of the following song was a servant girl 

 at Parkside, near Bardon Mill, Northumberland. The 

 only other occupant of the house being an old lady, for- 

 whom Lizzie acted in the double capacity of servant and 

 companion. During the month of October, 1867, Bardon 

 Mill and vicinity was visited by two notorious burglars, 

 named Finney and Adamson, for whom the police were 

 diligently searching after for previous crimes. 



