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op. Thomson's Collection. Acting as Supervisor of Excise CCCXXVI. To the Right Hon. William Pitt. Address of the Scottish Distillers CCCXXVII. To the Provost, Bailies, and Town Council of Dumfries. Request to be made a freeman of the town 1796. CCCXXVIII. To Mrs. Riddel. "Anarcharsis' Travels." The muses CCCXXIX. To Mrs. Dunlop. His ill-health. CCCXXX. To Mr. Thomson. Acknowledging his present to Mrs. Burns of a worsted shawl CCCXXXI. To the same. Ill-health. Mrs. Hyslop. Allan's etchings. Cleghorn CCCXXXII. To the same. "Here's a health to ane I loe dear" CCCXXXIII. To the same. His anxiety to review his songs, asking for copies CCCXXXIV. To Mrs. Riddel. His increasing ill-health CCCXXXV. To Mr. Clarke, acknowledging money and requesting the loan of a further sum CCCXXXVI. To Mr. James Johnson. The Scots Musical Museum. Request for a copy of the collection CCCXXXVII. To Mr. Cunningham. Illness and poverty, anticipation of death CCCXXXVIII. To Mr. Gilbert Burns. His ill-health and debts CCCXXXIX. To Mr. James Armour. Entreating Mrs. Armour to come to her daughter's confinement CCCXL. To Mrs. Burns. Sea-bathing affords little relief CCCXLI. To Mrs. Dunlop. Her friendship. A farewell CCCXLII. To Mr. Thomson. Solicits the sum of five pounds. "Fairest Maid on Devon Banks" CCCXLIII. To Mr. James Burness. Soliciting the sum of ten pounds CCCXLIV. To James Gracie, Esq. His rheumatism, &c. &c.--his loss of appetite Remarks on Scottish Songs and Ballads The Border Tour The Highland Tour Burns's Assignment of his Works Glossary LIFE OF ROBERT BURNS. Robert Burns, the chief of the peasant poets of Scotland, was born in a little mud-walled cottage on the banks of Doon, near "Alloway's auld haunted kirk," in the shire of Ayr, on the 25th day of January, 1759. As a natural mark of the event, a sudden storm at the same moment swept the land: the gabel-wall of the frail dwelling gave way, and the babe-bard was hurried through a tempest of wind and sleet to the shelter of a securer hovel. He was the eldest born of three sons and three daughters; his father, William, who in his native Kincardineshire wrote his name Burness, was bred a gardener, and sought for work in the West; but coming from the lands of the noble family of the Keiths, a suspicion accompanied him that he had been out--as rebellion was softly called--in the forty-five: a suspicio
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