Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1824-10-02

/ tsoulS fUot itS ooiy Inv - NsSou .
land name Of your steeples can assist
Iny recollection, for the .bonny Heigh
Kirk Bells had rHng mony q peal
wban the auldest amang them, Tro.
| ny itself Mas deep sleepin' i the Pos
| sill qnarry. ST. Giles. east in EN-.
bro', MIGHT speak to the point, but
this while back We ba ena been on
/ GUIDE terms. Vauntin' o. his size ae
day, offered a place in my choir,
! whain he MIGHT stan' like an Organ
man WI his kirk upon his back. but
the joke was ma weel ta'en, an ay'
fsin' Byne we've had little corresponds
ence. Amang a. the rest o. my con.
Temperatures. scarce stane STAINS a.
bune anither. What's come o. The
Bishops castle, or Craickston VII
his thick was? | see him noddin to
bis fa'--the riven ribets o. him ready
to coup into the river Cart. But mo-
ny thanks to your Townsfolk for the
canny way they took in convertIn'
me from Popery, instead o. stannin'
this day the admiration o. Scotlan',
had they taen the strong ham | might
hae been (like ither Draw buildin's |
cou'd mention) little better than a
shapeless ruin.
Yewadscarce believe, Mr.. Editor,
tho sud swear to a the alterations
live seen in my day. St. Mungo.
honest mar. had meadow hay on the
| place whaur your own Office stan's.-
I've seen the monks plawin' at hide
an seek amang the stooks-for they
warna' forbidden ony innocent amuse-
ment. but the Bishop didna' like
'Pitch and toss',.' Ae day lie had
been at RugIen, q think it was a
guide Friday some % the Friars had
dauner'd doan to the fleshers haugh,
whaur fa'in in WI fesher Geordie, he
Ienticed them to that wicked game
But st. Mungo comm hame by his
ain road aneath the grun' saw frae
my battlements what they war about,
and an angry man was he, tho he ne.
yer said wurd, but, WI his cruik "a
hint his back, slippit AVA doun to
the baugh, am or ever they wust. was
smashing i the midst o. them. The
Moncks ran fort, ieayin' their pitch
ers, but Geordie wantit TO lift the
bawbees, he was a sturdy loun, an
squar'd up to the Bishop; but St.
Mungo cou'd hauIe cruik wi ony
man, an fell'd the flesher as he had
been a hielan' cow. The first word
Geordie spak on hirslin' to his houghs
was confession-he declared him
SELL converted to the Bishops faith,
and was; sent on a pilgrimage to Kirk
raguei Abbey-a' body said this was
a great miracle, but 1 had my doubts
o. the convert, it was forC'd wark,
an out o. SIGHT out o. mind.
Whan Geordie was i the was kin
ira, the warl again gat uppermost;
he fell to his auld trade; an cam
hame VII gud draught o. veal. |
kenna what the Bishop thocht o this;
some said that quietly he preferr'd
outlet to the auldest relic in Ayrshire
-ae thing is certain, Geordie's son
was thereafter sent to the costle, for
the Bishop took notion o. the lad,
an tried 10 learn him latin, but cock
wadna fecht,' he WAS a chip o. the
auld block; an though bred to the
cowl, was better far at sheIin' pea
Gods than ceuntin' beads. For a. the
strappin's he got he grew day auld-
er an day waur; never a book in
his ham, but whan the Bishop was
luken o"re him. tho at cudgeIs. quar-
ter-staf, or the bow an arrow, We
wsdnS met his match i the hale kin.
ira side. 1t was said he gaed to En-
gland to be clerk o. Copmanburst; We
may read about him i the auld histo-
ries Of Robin Hood, under the name
o. Friar Tuck, or the Curtel Friar.
The leigh Kirk Steeple, yell be
thinkin'. sud be better acqnaint wiz
ither books than the history o Robin
Hood; vera true, but we maun haze
some recreation, this is our vacation.
The kirk belang to is gettin' what
We ca a radical repair, an requests
me to mention that till she get on her
new sarkin', the fewer visitors We
send up the better-she's no mindin'
about her ain townsfolk. but in this