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That acquaintance, worthy Sir, with which you were pleased to honour me, you must still allow me to challenge; for, with whatever unconcern I give up my transient connection with the merely great, I cannot lose the patronising notice of the learned and good without the bitterest regret. ELLISLAND, 9th Feb. 1789.
I am ever, my dear William, yours, P.S. If you are not then gone from Longtown, I'll write you a long letter by this day se'ennight. If you should not succeed in your tramps, don't be dejected, or take any rash step return to us in that case, and we will court Fortune's better humour. Remember this, I charge you. ELLISLAND, 2nd April 1789.
The sun, however, rose on their carousal, if the tradition of the land may be trusted. Thus, as Laggan is on the right bank of the Nith, while Dalswinton is on the left, we have Masterton crossing the river to join Burns at Ellisland, which is the converse of the procedure necessary on the supposition of Moffat being the locality.
If this fellow brings the mob at Ellisland upon us, that tar will be run, and that feather-bed gutted, for our benefit. What they took from the geese will be bestowed on us. Do you understand me? Did you ever hear of a man whose coat was made of tar and feathers, and furnished at the expense of the county?" "Hush, for God's sake, Warham! you make my blood run cold with your hideous notions!"
He has a friend at Washington, who spoons in the back parlor of the white-house in other words, is a member o f the kitchen-cabinet, of which, be it said, en passant, there never was a president of the United States yet entirely without one and there never will be! So much for politics and Ellisland. There was some crowd in the village on the day of Brother Stevens's arrival.
He returned to his room as soon as he reached his lodging-house, and drawing from his pocket a bundle of letters which he had intended putting in the postoffice at Ellisland, he carefully locked them up in his portable writing-desk which he kept at the bottom of his valise. When the devout Mrs.
Should you meet with Miss Nimmo, please remember me kindly to her. Tait of Harviestoun, where Burns was a happy guest in the Autumn of 1787. CLVL. To MRS. DUNLOP. ELLISLAND, November 1790. "As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country." Fate has long owed me a letter of good news from you, in return for the many tidings of sorrow which I have received.
ELLISLAND, June 14th, 1788. This is now the third day, my dearest Sir, that I have sojourned in these regions; and during these three days you have occupied more of my thoughts than in three weeks preceding: in Ayrshire I have several variations of friendship's compass, here it points invariably to the pole.
CXXXVIL To CAPTAIN RIDDEL, FRIARS CARSE. ELLISLAND, 16th October 1789. Sir, Big with the idea of this important day at Friars Carse, I have watched the elements and skies, in the full persuasion that they would announce it to the astonished world by some phenomena of terrific portent.
The last few years of Burns's life are a sad tragedy, and we pass over them hurriedly. He bought the farm Ellisland, Dumfriesshire, and married the faithful Jean Armour, in 1788, That he could write of her,
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