The Newtown bee., 1905-01-13
blowing on this farm the poets blow turned up the mouse nest:

turned up the mouse nest:
 But, Mousie. thou art no thy lane In proving foresight may be vain:
 The best laid schemes O m'ce an men
 Gang aft a-gley, An lea'e us nouRht but grief an pain.
 FI prom sd joy" The fullowirg spring his ''un willing | pl'a g' snare iurItd flown the noun tain daisy. k'ln,arnock is ten mics farther on. The fist edition of Burns poems was issued from Kilmarnock press in l7e6, and the town is justly proud of an elaborate monument to the poet containing museum of relics, all the edi, ions of his works ever published and the manuscripts of some of his most famous poems. A hne statue of the poet of Siciiian marble stands in front of the entrance. By far the most notable of all Burns collections is here. The manuscripts of his poems Ire mnuuteu under glass in frames of wood and brass adjusted in an upright manner that they may be swung back aud forth like the leaves of great book. What greater bliss for lovers of Burns than to read, in the authors own hand, "Tam O'Shanter," "The Iva Dogs,'' "The Cotter's Saturday | Night" "Last May braw wooer came doon the lang glen," and score of others?
 l The monument is located in beau tiful park on the brow of hill. The Burns country lies on every side but chiefly to the west and south. The Firth of Clyde and the whole island of Arran are in plain view to the vest ward. To the westward also lie Ayr and the "Castle O Montgomerie" but just hidden by the hills, as is also the village of Tarbolton, where Burns and his brother established the Bachelors Club" and where he spent many a happy evening, often as presiding of ticer, with his brethren of St James Lodge of Freemasons.
 A brarcb line runs down to Ayr on the sea a-coast:
 "Auld Ayr wham ne'er a town surpasses | For honest men and bonnie IaSsies."
 This aGcienl port has population o1 nearly "A GOO and is the heart of the Burns country. The "twa Brigs' span the Ayr,-the ''auld brig" saiC to Lave bs en built about 125O, the new erected in the poets time and the oc casion of the poem. The "Wallac, Tower" has been replaced by Gothi, structure with the Dungeon clock" ii it's top. The 'auld brig" is a curiosi ty; nothing in Ayrshire affords greate pleasure, perhaps, than walk over it
 marrow foot-path of 8 stree Where twa wheelbarrows tremble when the
 meet"
 The road south from the town passes about two miles out, the cottag where Burns was born in the "hind most year but ane' of the reign o George II. Perhaps a quarter of mile farther on is "Alloway's aul haunted Kirk" where Burns fathe is buried and where Tam O'Shanter' interference with the witches reve] nearly cost him his life
 "As he frae Ayr ae night did canter." The roof of the church has long sine fallen in but the side walls and ga ble are still intact.
 Descending the winding road to tn Doon, more leisurely than did Tal and the witches, we reach in a fe minutes the "auld brig" where gre mare Meg lost her tail. There al ornamental gardens by the bridge wit Burns monument in the style of Greek temple. Within are stone if ures of Tam O'Shanter and, tat h elbow" Souter Johnny engaged =s tel ling his ''queerest stories,"- . But pleasures are like poppies spread,
 You seize the flower, its bloom is she'd"
 The whole country abounds wit . Burns localities, but the tourist WI has several thousand miles to cover summer will probably sumter r luctantly back to Ayr, taking care n to miss the afternoon train for Gla gow. The town of Irvine is on tl route, where the failure of busine enterprise of the poets called fort es the extemporaneous lines: 'o 70 why the deuce should I repine, LII And be an i'll foreboder? in I'm twentythree, and fl ve feet nine IT I'll go and be sodger."