. Bonnie Scotland . ur na-ture,— to exalt your boyish enthusiasm for the beautiful,the heroic, and the true into an abiding principle, a habitof life, a Christian faith. Praying that you may carry into manhood the happyingenuous spuit, the gracious endearing qualities of the boy,— that the fondest hopes of love may be fulfilled in yourfortunate and honorable future, — I remain ever your friend, GRACE Plain, Dec. Zd, 1860. CONTENTS PAOK ALLOWAY.—Robert Burns 1 GLASGOW. — Sir William Wallace 19 LOCHS LOMOND AND KATRINE. —Rob Roy . 89STIRLING CASTLE. — The Little Douglas ... 59
. Bonnie Scotland . ur na-ture,— to exalt your boyish enthusiasm for the beautiful,the heroic, and the true into an abiding principle, a habitof life, a Christian faith. Praying that you may carry into manhood the happyingenuous spuit, the gracious endearing qualities of the boy,— that the fondest hopes of love may be fulfilled in yourfortunate and honorable future, — I remain ever your friend, GRACE Plain, Dec. Zd, 1860. CONTENTS PAOK ALLOWAY.—Robert Burns 1 GLASGOW. — Sir William Wallace 19 LOCHS LOMOND AND KATRINE. —Rob Roy . 89STIRLING CASTLE. — The Little Douglas ... 59 BANNOCKBURN. —Robert Bruce 79 LINLITHGOW. —Mary Queen of Scots .... 99EDINBURGH. —Liutle Margery and her Kitten . 119EDINBURGH. —The Marquis of Montrose . .143EDINBURGH. — The Two Margarets .... 163EDINBURGH. — The Prentices Pillar . . .185THE CITY CROSS. —The Pretenders ... 219 MELROSE. — ABBOTSFORD. — DRYBURGH. — Sir Wal-ter Scott 246 5ll!nitrfli| ROBERT BURNS. ROBEET T WAS Oil the evening of Sep-tember 23d, 1852, that I leftdear old Ireland, with somekind friends, for a short tourin Bonnie Scotland. We took a steamer atBelfast for Ardrossan, where we landed earlythe next morning. From this port we went byrailway to the town of Ayr, where we took acarriage and drove over to the parish of Alio- 4 ALLOWAY. way, the birthplace of the poet Burns. Almostall travellers who yisit Scotland come here,—some merely to have it to say that they haveseen the place, with other sights, and some be-cause of a real love for poets and poetry. Robert Burns was a peasant, and the son of apeasant. His fathers cottage, which we visitedfirst, was in his time what is called in Scot-land a clay bigging, containing only two apart-ments, a kitchen and a small sitting-room. Wewere sorry to find that an addition had beenbuilt on to it, and that it was occupied as analehouse. There is a noble poem by Burns, en-titled The Cotters Saturday Niglit, in whichthis cott
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