Literary by-paths in old England . Mossgiel Farm IN OLD ENGLAND The house stands on a high ridge, some sixtyyards back from the road, and is screened withthe stalwart thorn hedge which the poet and hisbrother are said to have planted. Its walls havebeen considerably raised since it was Burnsshome, and the roof of thatch has given place to. The Field of the Daisy one of slates. When Hawthorne visited it in1857, and forced his way inside in the absenceof the family, he found it remarkable for nothingso much as its dirt and dunghill odour. Thereis neither dirt nor odour to-day. The goodwifeof the
Literary by-paths in old England . Mossgiel Farm IN OLD ENGLAND The house stands on a high ridge, some sixtyyards back from the road, and is screened withthe stalwart thorn hedge which the poet and hisbrother are said to have planted. Its walls havebeen considerably raised since it was Burnsshome, and the roof of thatch has given place to. The Field of the Daisy one of slates. When Hawthorne visited it in1857, and forced his way inside in the absenceof the family, he found it remarkable for nothingso much as its dirt and dunghill odour. Thereis neither dirt nor odour to-day. The goodwifeof the present occupant of Mossgiel, Mr. Wyllie,keeps her house spotlessly clean, notwithstanding199 LITERARY BY-PATHS the demands made upon her time by innumer-able inquisitive visitors. On the . parlour tablelies a copious visitors book, and in the sameroom hang the manuscript of The Lass o Bal-lochmyle, and the letter in which Burns askedMiss Alexanders permission to publish the the back of the house lies the field whereBurns turned down the daisy, and the soil seems to have been consecrated to daisies bythe song which he bestowed on that first immor-tal one. Over the hedge, there is the otherfield where the poets ploughshare tore up themouses nest. The neighbouring town of Mauchline is a cen-tral spot in the history of Burns.
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