Chapter CXLIV

_Collected Works_, edited by William Anderson (1851). I have found many versions of this old song, but none to equal Gilfillan’s.

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Both from _Songs of Travel_ (Chatto & Windus, 1896). By permission of Charles Baxter, Esq., executor of the author.

The second was written at Vailima, Samoa, and is addressed ‘To S. R. Crockett, Esq.’ The author writes from Vailima to Mr. Crockett (May 17, 1893):--‘I shall never set my foot again upon the heather. Here I am until I die, and here will I be buried. The word is out, and the doom written.’--_Letters_, vol. ii. p. 287 (Methuen & Co., 1899).

l. 3. _Whaups._ Curlews.

11. _Peewees._ Lapwings.