For instead of his ain ten milk kye, Jamie telfer has gotten thirty and three.
"Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3)"
Walter Scott
"Its I, Jamie telfer of the fair Dodhead, A harried man I think I be!
"Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3)"
Walter Scott
Still keeping to the Teviot, now a fair-sized stream, rich in the variety and beauty of its scenery- "Pleasant Teviotdale, a land Made blithe by plough and harrow"- we pass Gledsnest and Colterscleuch, figuring in the well-known "Jamie telfer" ballad; Commonside, mentioned in "Kinmont Willie"; Northhouse, Teindside, Harwood, and Broadhaugh, snug farms all, till the hamlet of Newmill is reached, the quarrel scene between the "jovial harper" of the "Lay" and "Sweet Milk," "Bard of Reull," in which the latter was slain: "On Teviot's side, in fight they stood, And tuneful hands were stained with blood, Where still the thorn's white branches wave Memorial o'er his rival's grave."
"In the Border Country"
W. S. (William Shillinglaw) Crockett
