The Book of the Old Edinburgh Club-- Vol1-35 (1908-1985) ; (1991)- . of their sick and burying their Domini 1825. Creech, in his comparison of the condition of Edinburghin 1783 with that of twenty years earlier, states that thestreets were infested as formerly by idle ballad-singers,although no person, by the law of the burgh, was allowedto hawk or cry papers but the cadies. The only differencehe could see was that the ballads were infinitely more loosethan they were before, and that servants and citizens childrenmade excuses to be absent to listen to them. But so muchhas bee
The Book of the Old Edinburgh Club-- Vol1-35 (1908-1985) ; (1991)- . of their sick and burying their Domini 1825. Creech, in his comparison of the condition of Edinburghin 1783 with that of twenty years earlier, states that thestreets were infested as formerly by idle ballad-singers,although no person, by the law of the burgh, was allowedto hawk or cry papers but the cadies. The only differencehe could see was that the ballads were infinitely more loosethan they were before, and that servants and citizens childrenmade excuses to be absent to listen to them. But so muchhas been written elsewhere on the ballad-singers of Scotlandthat the subject need not be dwelt upon here, except toremind the reader that it is not so very long since that ballant singers hoarse and roopit were to be seen on thestreets singing their songs, and crying, All the new andmost popular songs of the day. The Flying Stationer was another conspicuous figure inEdinburgh life. In the days when newspapers were both fewand costly, the advent of startling news generally formed. o
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