Excerpt from Interesting and Characteristic Anecdotes of Burns The bard's boyhood, OR burns and jenny wilson, the poet's youth, burns and his brother gilbert, A father's prophecy, A schoolboy's toast, mr. Murdoch's opinions OF his pupils, skill IN debate, burns and his books, burns's tenderness OF heart, his first song, burns and nature, burns and his passions, burns escapes correction from his father, AH road TO heaven, tarbolton club rule, burns's dancing master, burns AT irvine, first meeting OF burns and jean armour, burns and bonnie jean, burns AT A knitting class, burns AS A musician, burns AT his father's death-bed, gallantry OF burns, sillars' description OF the poet, A monsieur DE trop, death and dr. Hornbook, burns AS A carter, indiscriminate courtship, A mauchline merchant, the awpu'est body, robert and gilbert, A compliment, man was made TO mourn, ' burns's home AT mossgiel, the origin OF tam O' shantee, A contemporary OP burns, the auld light and the new light. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.