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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE WIFE OF USHER'S WELL There lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy wife was she ; She had three stout and stalwart sons, And sent them o'er the sea. They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely ane, When word came to the carline wife, That her three sons were gane. They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely three, When word came to the carline wife, That her sons she 'd never see. ' I wish the wind may never cease, Nor fish be in the flood, Till my three sons come hame to me, In earthly flesh and blood ! ' THE WIFE OF USHER'S WELL It fell about the Martinmas, When nights are lang and mirk, The carline wife's three sons came hame, And their hats were o' the birk. It neither grew in syke nor ditch, Nor yet in ony sheugh ; But at the gates o' Paradise That birk grew fair eneugh. ' Blow up the fire, my maidens ! Bring water from the well ! For a' my house sail feast this night, Since my three sons are well.' And she has made to them a bed, She 's made it large and wide ; And she 's ta'en her mantle her about, Sat down at the bedside. Up then crew the red red cock, And up and crew the gray ; The eldest to the youngest said, ' 'Tis time we were away.' The cock he hadna craw'd but once, And clapp'd his wings at a', Whan the youngest to the eldest said, ' Brother, we must awa. THE WIFE OF USHER'S WELL ' The cock doth craw, the day doth daw, The channerin' worm doth chide ; Gin we be mist out o' our place, A sair pain we maun bide. ' Fare-ye-weel, my mother dear ! Fareweel to barn and byre ! And fare-ye-weel, the bonny lass That kindles my mother's fire.' CLERK SAUNDERS chapter{Section 4CLERK SAUNDERS Clerk Saunders and may Margaret Walk...
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Andrew Lang (March, 31, 1844 July 20, 1912) was a Scottish writer and literary critic who is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. Lang s academic interests extended beyond the literary and he was a noted contributor to the fields of anthropology, folklore, psychical research, history, and classic scholarship, as well as the inspiration for the University of St. Andrew s Andrew Lang Lectures. A prolific author, Lang published more than 100 works during his career, including twelve fairy books, in which he compiled folk and fairy tales from around the world. Lang s Lilac Fairy and Red Fairy books are credited with influencing J. R. R. Tolkien, who commented on the importance of fairy stories in the modern world in his 1939 Andrew Lang Lecture On Fairy-Stories.
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- ISBN 13 9780217447669
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