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Updated: June 18, 2025
Of Burns's longer poems the two best worth reading are "The Cotter's Saturday Night" and "Tam o' Shanter," the one giving the most perfect picture we possess of a noble poverty; the other being the most lively and the least objectionable of his humorous works. It would be difficult to find elsewhere such a combination of the grewsome and the ridiculous as is packed up in "Tam o' Shanter."
"The Queen sat down to spin at a nice Scotch wheel while I read Robert Burns to her, 'Tam o' Shanter, and 'A man's a man for a' that' her favourite." Her Majesty sent her miniature with an autograph letter to the American citizen, Mr. Peabody, in acknowledgment of his magnificent gift of model lodging-houses to the Working people of London.
Besides, I don't think I even want to. "I promise not to lecture on Nature, if that's what's worrying you." He took her hand in a parting grip. "Bring some sandwiches, will you? Quite a lot of 'em. I'll have some other stuff in my rucksack. And wear some clothes you don't mind wrecking. I suppose you haven't got a red tam o' shanter?" "Heavens, no!"
He was not much at home, his letters show, with Burns, to whom he seems to have attributed John Anderson, my jo, John, while he tells an anecdote of Burns composing Tam o' Shanter with emotional tears, which, if true at all, is true of the making of To Mary in Heaven. If Burns wept over Tam o' Shanter, the tears must have been tears of laughter.
But Trunnion is quite inimitable: he is a child of humour and of the highest spirits, like Mr. Weller the elder. Till Scott created Mause Headrig, no Caledonian had ever produced anything except "Tam o' Shanter," that could be a pendant to Trunnion. His pathos is possibly just a trifle overdone, though that is not my own opinion.
As I spoke, I wondered rather anxiously what the other telegram could be. "Well, we saw her, anyway!" said Whitney, "and she's marvellous! She wears a blue tam-o' shanter and has an ankle like a fairy tale. We saw her walk down the street." "That's nothing," I retorted, "I saw her hours ago. She was on the train with us from Birmingham this morning." This started a furious wrangle.
The doctor turned sharply and saw a young lady whose long clinging black dress made her seem taller than she was. She wore a little black hat with a single feather on one side, which gave it a sort of tam o' shanter effect. She came forward with hand outstretched. "I know you, Mr. Martin," she said in a voice that indicated immense relief. "You?" he cried. "Is it you?
Where is your life-belt?" "Do you want anything?" asked Courtenay, through the chink. Elsie smiled at him. She was wrapped in a heavy ulster, and had a Tam o' Shanter tied firmly on her head by a stout veil. "Mr. Malcolm thought we had better bring life-belts from our cabins. I came for mine, and I looked out and saw you. I wanted to ask you what had become of Dr. Christobal.
Bring the third row of web down in front to form the tabs; then up to the back of collarette and finish the back, bringing the last row down in front into the tabs. Paper patterns may be used as a guide, but children should be encouraged to draw and cut their own patterns. Tam O' Shanter Cap Measure the doll's head and make the top of the crown twice the diameter of the head.
The other division of the Poems, at the head of which stand The Jolly Beggars, Tam o' Shanter, and The Holy Fair, exhibit an equal power of vivid feeling and expression with a greater creative and observant faculty, and were almost equally important as a corrective and alterative to their generation.
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