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Show 1 Th M;inuseriit of Tini o' Shanter." Literary freature-! aro often to bo found iu queer places. The manuscript of Kobert L'.'.nis' famous poem "Taiu o' Shanter" is owned in South Africa, imil um.il recently was the property of Mr. Roliert (inihaiii of Capo Town. Writes a visitor to that region: "We have seen the eyes of many an eiithusi-as'ic eiithusi-as'ic relic hunter glisten over articles of great historic value, but never have we wit nesscil BUch ufiinistakablo indication of undoubted cestaey as those half dozen quarto sheets of paper, inscribed by Burns, were capablo of producing upon certain otherwise impassive, quiet, steady going Scotsmen." |