SCOTTISH GAEDENS 



of the wealthy miller of Tifty, lost her heart to a 

 handsome trumpeter in the suite of the Lord of Fyvie. 



" At Fyvie's yett there grows a flower, 



It grows baith braid and bonnie ; 

 There's a daisy in the midst o' it, 

 And they call it Andrew Lammie." 



No backward lover was the said daisy, for the 

 maiden tells us how 



" The first time me and my love met 



Was in the woods o' Fyvie, 

 He kissed my lips five thousand times 

 And aye he ca'd me bonnie." 



The miller, whose name does not appear in the 

 poem, but who is known to have borne the homely one 

 of Smith, took a very firm line with his daughter 

 from the first. He declined even to entertain the 

 idea of her wedding with a mere trumpeter. She 

 should look far higher for a mate with her " tocher " 

 of five thousand merks. The miller's wife and sons 

 were of the same opinion, and between them they 

 led poor Annie a terrible life. If the poet is to be 

 credited, when argument failed, they tried violence 

 and beat the girl unmercifully. They even showed 

 Lord Fyvie the door when he came to plead the cause 

 of the lovers. Annie remained true to her troth, 

 and before Andrew's duty called him away to Edin- 

 burgh he met her in a last tryst at the Bridge of 

 Sleugh, and vowed he would come back and marry her 

 in spite of them all. 



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