| Summary: | Humourous song. Old Jackey is sent by his master to sell a cow. After the sale he stops at an inn; three highwaymen observe that he has money. Planning to rob Jackey, they offer him a ride home. Jackie outsmarts them, stealing their horse which is laden with three thousand pounds of silver and gold. His master, a merchant, is so pleased he offers Jackey his daughter in marriage. See Peacock, Kenneth "Songs of the Newfoundland Outports" (Bulletin No 197, Anthropological Series No. 55) 3 vols. Ottawa Museum of Man, 1965. p. 226 "The Rich Man's Daughter"; Greenleaf, Elisabeth and Grace Yarrow Mansfield. "Ballads and Sea Songs of Newfoundland". Hatboro: Folklore Associates 1968. no. 21, p. 47 "The Highway Robert"; Leach, MacEdward. "Folk Ballads.Lower Labrador". No. 60, p. 162; Child No. 283 "The Crafty Farmer".
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