Hi Jim,

Yes, it's plausible. By telling the story of the schoolgirl and John Thomas Matheson before he gives the text- it implies that the ballad was the one and same. Why would he not even mention Henderson, who doesn't appear in his 1919 book?

Mackenzie does the same type of thing in Quest with the Blaeberry Courtship. He attributes it to James Isaac Macdonald in 1919, then in 1928 attributes it to John Henderson.

Richie