Lines Sent To Alexander Mclaughlan, Amaranth Station, With A Copy Of My Poems

"Lines written on the arrival of Governor Lorne and the Princess Louise in Canada.             The tidings now all hearts do please,"

"Brain Engravings.             Great wonder is the human brain,             How it impressions doth retain,             Inscribed on it are au"

"The following adventure was participated in by Mr. J. Podmore and Mr. W. D. Grant at Matheson's Cold Spring Cheese Factory in Zorra, 1888."

"The Thurso baker Robert Dick[E]             Armed with his hammer and his pick,             Dame nature's secrets did reveal,"

"Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met     Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky,     And twilight in the east, a doubt as yet,     S"

"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"