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On 13th June, twin girls were born to Jean, but they only lived a few days. On the same day their father wrote from Ellisland to Mrs. Dunlop a letter, in which we see the real Burns, true to the best feelings of his nature, and true to his sorely-tried and long-suffering wife. 'This is the second day, my honoured friend, that I have been on my farm.
We looked down on the unpolished wretches, their impertinent wives, and clouterly brats, as the lordly bull does on the little dirty ant-hill, whose puny inhabitants he crushes in the carelessness of his ramble, or tosses in the air in the wantonness of his pride. ELLISLAND, 13th June 1788.
CXVIII. To BISHOP GEDDES, EDINBURGH. ELLISLAND, 3rd Feb. 1789.
As for the Muses, they have as much an idea of a rhinoceros as of a poet. He was, in fact, ungracious towards his neighbours, not that they were boorish or uninformed folk, but simply because, though living at Ellisland in body, his mind was in Ayrshire with his darling Jean, and he was looking to the future when he should have a home and a wife of his own.
When I shall have regained your good opinion, perhaps I may venture to solicit your friendship; but, be that as it may, the first of her sex I ever knew shall always be the object of my warmest good wishes. ELLISLAND, 23rd March 1789. Sir, The gentleman who will deliver you this is a Mr. Nielson, a worthy clergyman in my neighbourhood, and a very particular acquaintance of mine.
Nicol had had a lodging there, in which to enjoy his few weeks of autumn vacation; Burns and Masterton the one from Ellisland, the other from Dalswinton had journeyed thither in company; and there, probably in some small cottage room, had the strength of the peck o' maut been tried.
The world has agreed that they are the best things Burns has done; and rates him for their sake in the highest rank of its poets. The truth is that Burns came to Ellisland with numerous schemes of future poetical work, vigorous hopes of carrying some of them, and an inspiration and faculty of utterance unimpaired.
Ellisland was one of those little villages to which geographers scarcely accord a place upon the maps. It is not honored with a dot in any map that we have ever seen of Kentucky. But, for all this, it is a place! Some day the name will be changed into Acarnania or Etolia, Epirus or Scandinavia, and then be sure you shall hear of it.
I am astonished at what you tell me of Anthony's writing me. I never received it. Poor fellow I you vex me much by telling me that he is unfortunate. I shall be in Ayrshire ten days from this date. I have just room for an old Roman FAREWELL. C. To MRS. DUNLOP. ELLISLAND, 16th August 1788.
That you may be both the one and the other is the earnest wish, and that you will be both is the firm persuasion of, my dear Sir, etc. CXXXIX. To MR. RICHARD BROWN, PORT-GLASGOW. ELLISLAND, 4th November 1789.
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