{113a}) We now take the Scott version where Telfer has arrived at Branksome. Scott's stanza xxv. is Sharpe's xxiv. In Scott, Buccleuch; in Sharpe, Martin Elliot bids his men "warn the waterside" (Sharpe), "warn the water braid and wide" (Scott). Scott's stanza xxvi. is probably his own, or may be, for he bids them warn Wat o' Harden, Borthwick water, and the Teviot Scotts, and Gilmanscleuch--which is remote. Then, in xxvii., Buccleuch says -
Ride by the gate of Priesthaughswire, And warn the Currors o' the Lee, As ye come down the Hermitage slack Warn doughty Wiliie o' Gorrinberry.
All this is plain sailing, by the pass of Priesthaughswire the Scotts will ride from Teviot into Hermitage water, and, near the Slack, they will pass Gorrinberry, will call Will, and gallop down Hermitage water to the Liddel, where they will nick the returning Captain at the Ritterford. The Sharpe version makes Martin order the warning of the waterside (xxiv.), and then Martin says (xxv.) -
When ye come in at the Hermitage Slack, Warn doughty Will o' Gorranherry.