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CLX. To MRS. DUNLOP. ELLISLAND, 7th Feb. 1791. When I tell you, Madam, that by a fall, not from my horse, but with my horse, I have been a cripple some time, and that this is the first day my arm and hand have been able to serve me in writing, you will allow that it is too good an apology for my seemingly ungrateful silence.
It was not till the beginning of December that he was in a position to bring his wife and children to Ellisland; and this event brought him into kindlier relations with his fellow-farmers. His neighbours gathered to bid his wife welcome; and drank to the roof-tree of the house of Burns.
Nay, worst of all, alas for helpless woman!... Well! divines may say of it what they please; but execration is to the mind, what phlebotomy is to the body; the overloaded sluices of both are wonderfully relieved by their respective evacuations. CLIX. To DR. MOORE. ELLISLAND, 28th January 1791. I do not know, Sir, whether you are a subscriber to Grose's Antiquities of Scotland.
Write to me at the post-town of Ellisland, and remember to address me as Alfred Stevens nay, perhaps, you may even say, 'Rev. Alfred Stevens, it will grace the externals of the document with a more unctuous aspect, and secure the recipient a more wholesome degree of respect. Send all my letters to this town under envelope with this direction. I wrote you twice from Somerville.
He had to put down smuggling with one hand and write his glorious poetry with the other, as Mrs. James expressed it. At New Cumnock he would spend a night sometimes on his way to Ellisland, his "farm that would not pay," near Dumfries.
My warmest good wishes and most respectful compliments to Mrs. Blacklock, and Miss Johnson, if she is with you. I cannot conclude without telling you that I am more and more pleased with the step I took respecting "my Jean." Adieu! ELLISLAND, 17th December 1788. My dear honoured friend, Yours, dated Edinburgh, which I have just read, makes me very unhappy.
My dear Sir, The hurry of a farmer in this particular season, and the indolence of a poet at all seasons, will, I hope, plead my excuse for neglecting so long to answer your obliging letter of the 5th August. CXXXV. To HIS BROTHER, WILLIAM BURNS, SADDLER, NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE. ELLISLAND, 14th Aug. 1789.
By and by we came to Dunscore kirk, which Burns used to attend with his family while resident at Ellisland a gloomy-looking man, the people thought him, all the time that he, with his generous, benevolent nature, was in reality groaning over the stern Calvinistic theology of the preacher.
To Gilbert, who was in sore need of the money, he advanced one hundred and eighty pounds, as his contribution to the support of their mother. With what remained of the money he leased from Mr. Miller of Dalswinton the farm of Ellisland, on which he entered at Whitsunday 1788.
He watched the progress of his enemy with keen eyes; and, with his "bull-pup" in his hand, which a sort of instinct made him keep in the direction of the highway, he followed his form upon the road. When he was out of sight and hearing, the spy jumped to his feet. The game, he felt, was secure now in one respect at least. "He's for Ellisland. That was no bad guess then.
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