{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/celt/sfft/sfft10.htm","path":"neu/celt/sfft/sfft10.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/sfft/sfft10.htm","text":"Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, by George Douglas, [1901]\n\"O WHERE are ye gaun?\"\n \u00a0\u00a0Quo' the fause knight upon the road;\n I'm gaun to the schule,\"\n \u00a0\u00a0Quo' the wee boy, and still he stude.\n\"What is that upon your back?\"\n \u00a0\u00a0Quo' the fause knight upon the road;\n \"Atweel it is my bukes,\"\n \u00a0\u00a0Quo' the wee boy, and still he stude.\n\"What's that ye've got in your arm?\"\n \u00a0\u00a0Quo' the fause knight upon the road;\n \"Atweel it is my peat,\"\u00a01\n \u00a0\u00a0Quo' the wee boy, and still he stude.\n\"Wha's aucht thae sheep?\"\n \u00a0\u00a0Quo' the fause knight upon the road;\n \"They're mine and my mother's,\"\n \u00a0\u00a0Quo' the wee boy, and still he stude.\n\"How mony o' them are mine?\"\n \u00a0\u00a0Quo' the fause knight upon the road;\n \"A' they that hae blue tails,\"\n \u00a0\u00a0Quo' the wee boy, and still he stude.\n\"I wiss ye were on yon tree,\"\n \u00a0\u00a0Quo' the fause knight upon the road;\n \"And a guid ladder under me,\"\n \u00a0\u00a0Quo' the wee boy, and still he stude.\n\"And the ladder for to break.\"\n \u00a0\u00a0Quo' the fause knight upon the road;\n \"And you for to fa' down,\"\n \u00a0\u00a0Quo' the wee boy, and still he stude.\n\"I wiss ye were in yon sea,\"\n \u00a0\u00a0Quo' the fause knight upon the road;\n \"And a guid bottom under me,\"\n \u00a0\u00a0Quo' the wee boy, and still he stude.\n\"And the bottom for to break,\"\n \u00a0\u00a0Quo' the fause knight upon the road;\n \"And ye to be drown\u00e8d,\"\n \u00a0\u00a0Quo' the wee boy, and still be stude.\u00a01\n81:1 Chambers, Popular Rhymes of Scotland.\n82:1 A contribution to the schoolmaster's stock of fuel.\n83:1 Motherwell gives the above, in his Minstrelsy Ancient and Modern, as a nursery tale of Galloway, and a specimen of a class of compositions of great antiquity, representing the Enemy of man in the endeavour to confound some poor mortal with puzzling questions.","title":"Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales: Nursery Stories: The Fause Knight and the Wee Boy","type":"page"}