...his guid blue bonnet, Whiles crooning o'er some auld Scots sonnet; Whiles glowering round wi' prudent cares, Lest bogles catch him unawares: Kirk-Alloway...houlets nightly cry. By this time he was 'cross the foord, Whare in the snaw the chapman smoor'd; And past the birks and meikle stane Whare drunken Charlie...

...his guid blue bonnet, Whiles crooning o'er some auld Scots sonnet, Whiles glow'ring round wi' prudent cares, Lest bogles catch him unawares: Kirk-Alloway...neck-bane; And thro' the whins, and by the cairn, Whare hunters fand the murder'd bairn; And near the thorn, aboon the well, Whare Mungo's mither hang'd...

...guid blue bonnet, Whiles crooning o'er some auld Scots sonnet, Whiles glow' ring round wi' prudent cares, Lest bogles catch him unawares. Kirk-Alloway...was cross the ford, Whare in the snaw the chapman smoored; '«i And past the birks and meikle stane, Whare drunken Charlie brak's neck-bane; And thro'...

...orality this process represents. Symbolically, the first anecdote is that of the smothered chapman ( 'By this time he was cross the ford, | Whare, in the snaw, the chapman smoor'd' (11. 89-90)), the very Scots word for the manner of his death itself serving as an elegiac note on...