A barren argument, Sean; & as you say rather out of place here. But you raised the topic & tried rather disingenuously to retract on it. So I will point out that Louis himself would never have consented to Shoals Of Herring being attributed as 'Traditional' in any publication or on the apparatus of any record with which he was connected. With Blackleg Miner, he did ~~ by default, if not specifically, as on The Iron Muse, with Bert's notes about variants in Nova Scotia &c.

~M~