[A composite volume : containing The ballads and songs of Ayrshire ...
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APPENDIX.<br />
<strong>The</strong> bay an' the yellow,<br />
<strong>The</strong>y skimmed like a swallow,<br />
But Paterson's mare she came foremost<br />
<strong>The</strong> white an' the blue<br />
<strong>The</strong>y funkit an' flew,<br />
But Paterson's mare she came foremost.<br />
Fy whip her in, &c.<br />
We gave the tradition alluded to in the First Series, on the authority<br />
<strong>of</strong> a descendant <strong>of</strong> the Patersons <strong>of</strong> Ballaird, <strong>and</strong> see nothing in<br />
Hogg's note to disprove it.<br />
<strong>The</strong> " part <strong>of</strong> the old song" he adduces is<br />
" not the original one," the tune, as he tells us, having been played<br />
under a different<br />
name at vpeddings, " long previous to the battle <strong>of</strong><br />
Sheriffmuir." <strong>The</strong> Ballaird tradition assigns the origin <strong>of</strong> " Paterson's<br />
Mare" to the rising at<br />
Bothwell Brig, in 1679, <strong>and</strong> being composed<br />
to the same tune, may, -with, verbal alterations <strong>and</strong> additions,<br />
have superseded the old words, " She's yours," &c. It is to be regretted<br />
that Hogg did not give the whole <strong>of</strong> the song. Probably it<br />
was not in his power.<br />
" SCOFFING BALLAD."<br />
In putting our remarks upon this ballad (p. 54) to press, we overlooked<br />
one or two facts <strong>of</strong> some interest. <strong>The</strong> lines—<br />
" And Orangefield, Dalrymple call'd,<br />
Frae Finlayson, or some sic fauld"<br />
were evidently in allusion to the fact, that the Earl <strong>of</strong> Glencaim <strong>and</strong><br />
Hew Dalrymple <strong>of</strong> Orangefield were married to two sisters, daughters<br />
<strong>of</strong> Hew M'Quyre <strong>of</strong> Drumdow, in Stair or Ochiltree parish.* <strong>The</strong>y<br />
were <strong>of</strong> humble birth—their gr<strong>and</strong>father, <strong>and</strong> probably their father<br />
also, in his earlier years, having been violin players in Ayr.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y owe<br />
their rise in the world to the gratitude <strong>of</strong> one James Macrae, who,<br />
when a poor orphan, was taken notice <strong>of</strong> by the elder M'Quyre, <strong>and</strong><br />
I<br />
kept for some time at the school. Macrae went to sea, <strong>and</strong> graduj<br />
ally rose in the world, till he attained the high position <strong>of</strong> Governor<br />
; <strong>of</strong> Madras. On his return to Scotl<strong>and</strong>, with immense wealth, he sought<br />
out the family <strong>of</strong> his benefactor, <strong>and</strong>, not being married himself, left<br />
them the whole <strong>of</strong> his fortune.<br />
seat <strong>of</strong> the Earl <strong>of</strong> Glencairn.<br />
Finlaystoun, in Renfrewshire, was the<br />
* <strong>The</strong>re is a property in each <strong>of</strong> these parishes called Drumdow.<br />
PRINTED BY ANDREW MURRAY, MILNE SQUARE, EDINBURGH.<br />
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