. The land of heather . he townitself; and wherever he was, the evening was sure tobe a merry one, for his good humor and ready witwere unfaiHng. A favorite resort was the Globe Hotel, on a tinylane just off the square. Here you can see the dark A Burns Pilgrimage 245 wainscotted taproom where Burns used to sing, tellstories, and drink. His table is still there, and in acorner is the chair to which he was partial, while, ifyou will step upstairs, you can see his punch bowl,Jeans workbox, and a verse of Comin through theRye, just as it was scratched by the poet himself on awindow-pane. It is a
. The land of heather . he townitself; and wherever he was, the evening was sure tobe a merry one, for his good humor and ready witwere unfaiHng. A favorite resort was the Globe Hotel, on a tinylane just off the square. Here you can see the dark A Burns Pilgrimage 245 wainscotted taproom where Burns used to sing, tellstories, and drink. His table is still there, and in acorner is the chair to which he was partial, while, ifyou will step upstairs, you can see his punch bowl,Jeans workbox, and a verse of Comin through theRye, just as it was scratched by the poet himself on awindow-pane. It is a privilege to look on these things,for every relic of Burns and every spot associated withhim has something of sacredness ; and to Ayr and Dum-fries come pilgrims from the world over to observe forthemselves the scenes familiar to his eyes and celebratedin his verse. %. l^ ...--^ - *- - ^^^^te ft-<r5i ^^^^^0 ^gjP*^ ititfli^^*- ^, SfTl TO rirT?.^Syiw.»r •- ^W^ K^t^ff^ The Twa Brigs o Ayr XIV A GLIMPSE OF GALLOWAY. w HAT I saw of Gallowaywas mostlyconfined to its far end,where I spent somedays in the little sea-port town of Stranraerand its attraction thatdrew me thither wasin part a certain charmthat literature hasgiven to Galloway, butmore a desire to seethat portion of the district known as The was a mystic spell in this name which held sug-gestions of strange and highly picturesque landscape,and of native dwellers whose ways would be peculiarlyprimitive and interesting. But, after all, Rhinns * Issimply equivalent to the English word prongs, and a 246 A Stone-breaker A Glimpse of Cjalloway 247 glance at the map reveals its significance, for the landprojects seaward to north and south like the clumsy-horns of some great beast. These Rhinns of Galloway are also called the Gallo-way Highlands, a name which for a stranger has amore definite meaning than the other, even if decid-edly less fascinating. The scenery, however, is but adwarfed imit
Size: 1470px × 1700px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorjohnsonc, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookyear1904
