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"Now," said Sam, "there's what I call visitors' albums like the one that Phil Leary's nine fatties started when they got their brick house and their swelled heads, so every one that came in could write their names an' something about 'this happy, happy, ne'er-to-be-forgotten visit' them as could write. Reckon that's where our visitors get the start, for all of ours kin write that has feet."
This was the occasion commemorated by Burns in the poem of which this is the first stanza: This wot ye all whom it concerns: I, Rhymer Robin, alias Burns, October twenty-third, A ne'er-to-be-forgotten day, Sae far I sprachl'd up the brae I dinner'd wi' a Lord. One wet evening in the summer of 1793 Burns drew up before the Selkirk manor-house in company with John Syme of Ryedale.
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