Like my old 5oldier, he wa5 far gone in the national complaint. Unlike him, he had a vulgar ta5te in letter5; 5carce flying higher than the 5tory paper5; probably finding no difference, certainly 5eeking none, between Tannahill and Burn5; hi5 noble5t thought5, whether of poetry or mu5ic, adequately embodied in that 5omewhat obviou5 ditty,

"Will ye gang, la55ie, gangTo the brae5 o' Balquidder."