Jim,

If "The Blaeberry Courtship" was one of the few ballads John Henderson could sing in 1908, then how, in 1928 does he know a full 25 stanza version of Child 88 titled, "Johnson and the Colonel." And considering Mackenzie attributed the exact same ballad to a schoolgirl in Quest (1919) it seems fishy- which is something they know about in Nova Scotia.

Note also that no mention of Henderson's "The Blaeberry Courtship" was made in 1919. Instead Henderson's 1928 version is attributed to James Isaac Macdonald in 1919. Who sang it?

This is what I meant in my previous remark about Blaeberry.

Richie