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"It wad be a bonnie day i' Aberdeen," he reminded her, blithely. "But 'tis no the robins there 'at wad be singin'." "Shall I guess?" "Na, I'll tell ye. Laverocks!" "Really, Sandy?" And then she suddenly remembered something. "Now you guess what you're going to have for supper to-night." "Porridge?" "No; scones!" "Bully!" And Sandy clapped his hands ecstatically.
"When the Maiden marches, father, you shall have banner-painting," said the girl. "Ay, lass, when the Maid marches, and when the lift falls and smoors the laverocks we shall catch them in plenty. My face grew red again with anger at the word "apprentice," and I know not how I should have answered an offer so unworthy of my blood, when the girl broke in
The silver mystery, then, was intended for a wand and a very pretty way of making love to an American girl, too, to call it a 'sceptre of rule over fair Scotland'; and the three birds were three singing laverocks 'to mind her of him when he was gone'! But the real Hynde Horn in the dear old ballad had a truelove who was not captious and capricious and cold like Francesca.
I was not familiar with the opening verses, and these were the first lines that met my eye: 'Oh, he gave to his love a silver wand, Her sceptre of rule over fair Scotland; With three singing laverocks set thereon For to mind her of him when he was gone.
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