He seized a
tumbler, and in the fulness of his heart, wrote the following lines on
it with a diamond. The tumbler is carefully preserved, and was shown
some years since by a relative of Mr. Stewart, at his cottage at
Closeburn, to Colonel Fergusson, who transcribed the lines, and gave
them to me with the assurance that they had never been printed.
The first verse is an adaptation of a well known Jacobite lyric.
"You're welcome Willie Stewart!
You're welcome Willie Stewart!
There's no a flower that blooms in May
That's half so welcome as thou art!
Come bumper high, express your joy!
The bowl--ye maun renew it--
The _tappit-hen_--gae fetch her ben,
To welcome Willie Stewart!
May faes be strong--may friends be slack--
May he ilk action rue it--
May woman on him turn her back
Wad wrang thee Willie Stewart!"
J. Reynell Wreford.
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LACEDAEMONIAN BLACK BROTH.
Your correspondent "R.O." having inquired after the author of the
conjecture that the Lacedaemonian Black Broth was composed wholly, or in
part, of coffee, such an idea appearing to me to have arisen principally
from a presumed identity of colour between the two, and to have no
foundation in fact, I have endeavoured to combat it, in the first
instance by raising the question, whether it was black or not?
This has brought us to the main point, what the [Greek: zomos melas]
really was.
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