greg stephens: A song by Tom Paxton contains the line "She made a most unusual offer to me". I have not checked that or any of your other words in DigiTrad.

For data, let's start with Child 1: north (country), bonny (broom), noble (worth), stout (courage), brave (courage, knight), eldest (sister), silver (pin), second (sister), youngest (daughter), young (knight), fair (maid, maiden), three (questions), this very (day), longer (love), deeper (hell), louder (thunder), sharper (hunger), greener (poison), worse (devil), glad (knight), lovely (bride), constant (you). Those will surely do to go on.

--- Joe Fineman    joe_f@verizon.net

||: Don't call him a fool; ask yourself _whose_ fool. :||