The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume 2. / The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century

THE ETTRICK SHEPHERD. Lithographed from an original Portrait in the possession of his widow by Schenck & M c Farlane, Edinburgh.
IN SIX VOLUMES;
VOL. II.
EDINBURGH: ADAM & CHARLES BLACK, NORTH BRIDGE, BOOKSELLERS AND PUBLISHERS TO HER MAJESTY.
M.DCCC.LVI.
EDINBURGH: PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE AND COMPANY, PAUL'S WORK.
TO JOHN BROWN, Esq., of Marlie.
My dear Sir,
I dedicate to you this second volume of The Modern Scottish Minstrel, as a sincere token of my estimation of your long continued and most disinterested friendship, and of the anxiety you have so frequently evinced respecting the promotion of my professional views and literary aspirations.
I have the honour to be, My Dear Sir, your most obliged, and very faithful servant, CHARLES ROGERS. Argyle House, Stirling, December 1855.
The Bard, expelled from the dwellings of men by plunderers according to one account, by a discontented helpmate according to another, is placed in a lone out-house, where he meets an owl which he supposes himself to engage in an interchange of sentiment respecting the olden time:—