hound/baby murder-many versions-want specific

Subject: RE: hound/baby murder-many versions-want specific
From: Rois (inactive)
Date: 12 Feb 99 - 06:45 PM

Hey Joe,

Thanks for the help, the threads you referred me to gave fruit - but I am still stuck on that Jane McWilliams any clues where to search?

Thanks again for your help - you're the bees' knees!

Rois

Subject: RE: hound/baby murder-many versions-want specific
From: Joe Offer
Date: 10 Feb 99 - 07:12 PM

Hi, Rois - we had a very interesting thread about that - click here and see if that's the one you're talking about.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: hound/baby murder-many versions-want specific
From: Rois (inactive)
Date: 10 Feb 99 - 07:02 PM

Looking for a certain version (could not find in data base) of the hunter coming home to find his hound (greyhound in this case) home before him, door open, blood all over and no baby in the cradle - he runs the dog through with his sword believeing him to have murdered his son and then hears the whimper of the healthy baby under a pile of bedclothes and a dead fox in the mess. He is heart-broken that he ever doubted his most trusted hound and builds a monument to the grey. I have heard of american versions of this but believe the one I seek, which I read ages ago in an old ballad collection is english. It was quite the tear jerker. Now that I have greyhounds - I'm hankering to acquire the lyrics to this particular ballad.

PS - also still searching for lyrics to Jane McWilliams (baby murder by drowning at mother's hand)!

Thank you so much -

Rois