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Updated: May 10, 2025
Whether the fairies were at that instant listening under the eaves, will never be known; but it chanced, one day, that Wild Robin was sent across the moors to fetch the kye. "I'll rin away," thought the boy: "'tis hard indeed if ilka day a great lad like me must mind the kye. I'll gae aff; and they'll think me dead."
When he was not reiving other people's kye, other people were probably reiving his; and as a general rule one is driven to conclude that he was not unlike that famous Scotch terrier whose master attributed the dog's persistently staid and even melancholy disposition to the fact that he "jist couldna get enough o' fechting."
But if she's gaun to look after the kye at St. Leonard's, that's another story; to be sure they maun be sorted. Grizzie, come up here, and tak tent to the honest auld man, and see he wants naething. I think there's been enough the day to gie an awfa' warning about your cockups and your fallal duds see what they a' come to," etc. etc. etc.
You should see how they look at me when I gie them mair o' that rotten grass to eat. It's eneuch to mak a man greet, for what richt hae I to keep kye when I canna meat them?" Waster Lunny has said to me more than once that the great surprise of his life was when Elspeth was willing to take him.
'Good wife, what are you singing for? you know we've lost the hay, And what we'll do with horse and kye is more than I can say; While, like as not, with storm and rain, we'll lose both corn and wheat. She looked up with a pleasant face, and answered low and sweet, There is a Heart, there is a Hand, we feel but cannot see; We've always been provided for, and we shall always be.
"Jenny," they said, "was a thrifty lassie, and wad mak a guid wife. She kenned a' about the management o' the kye, and she wad aye hae her mither at hand to apply to in ony strait." Another party differed from them entirely, both as to the conclusiveness of the evidence, and the advantages to be derived from the marriage. "The buyin o' the gown," they maintained, "was naething.
If I tried to 'earn the milk, it was either owre het or owre cauld when I put in the 'earning; if I began to wash the dishes, she aye milkit the kye first, and then she wondered how some folk had sae little sense.
"That is their way," said Phoebe: "they have got it into their silly Hottentot heads as kye won't yield their milk if the calf is taken away; and it is no use arguing with 'em; they will have their own way; but they are very trusty and honest, poor things. We soon found that out.
"When we had gotten the victory, there were some o' the lads thocht that Bewcastle sud pay scot in beasts as weel as men. Sae Wat and a score mair rade off to lowse Geordie Musgrave's kye. The road's clear, and they'll be back ower Liddell by this time. Dod, there'll be walth o' plenishin' at the Ninemileburn." Sim was cheered by the news. If Wat got back more than his own he might be generous.
But I have hinted that she was a kind-hearted creature; and, above all, do I remember her for the fine old ballads which she sang to me. But there was one that was an especial favourite with her, and a verse of which, if I remember correctly, ran thus "Fie, Lizzy Lindsay! Sae lang in the mornins ye lie, Mair fit ye was helping yer minny To milk a' the ewes and the kye."
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