Show HISTORIC SPOT the place where the poet bares burns first saw the light op 0 bay day five miles from kilmarnock is irvine where burn burns made hia his un fortunate start as a flax dresser and worse still contracted in the opinions of hia his biographers very v 7 many bad habits babits and nine miles ile s in in another direction is ayr where in the bummer mime time omnibuses run regularly to tk and from the elation t to 0 the cottage in which the poet was born the monument erected to hie ilia meru memory ory the auld kirk of alloway and the auld brig 0 doon duon the three later being situated all close to each other and about abou t a mile to the south of odthe the former the L straggling struggling high street reached one soon finds the inn inn on the right in which tarn and hie dear companion cump anlou souter johnny are said to have got fou I 1 together eal altae A we vr V wre je i r e p re ts the her reluctantly bidding abod by to his hi companions compani oris ol 01 the ev evening ening in au that hour on ight black the key stane that t drep dreary ary hour lie h mounta his beah t in and gives a fair idea in a rude country way of the start for that memorable ride the house is a plain substantial scotch building two stories high with a thatched roof root and remains very much what it must have been when as the etory story goes dugald graeme of Bh anter and john Davidson Da the drunken shoemaker the originals of the poem used to go there on market days the room upstairs in wh which ich tarn tam wae was glorious 13 is still pointed out but the chairs of the carrick farmer and souter johnny have been recently pur chosed by the ayr burns club and placed in the memorial room in the c cottage where he lie was born at alloway AI loway the original drink ang al ing cup cu or caup of the inn is now the me property r 0 er t bof ef tome private individual indi i d liar tut but the present landlord shows ft a fac amile smil e in a well executed piece e c e of dovetailed woodwork li b bound d together with a silver hoop which is filled and emptied by enthusiastic its R was wits mhd old one magaline Magai ine |