The poet was hospitably entertained at a place one day called for short and sweet Dahna Cardoch. In appreciation he got off the following:
When death's dark stream I ferry o'er,
A time that surely shall come—
In heaven itself I'll ask no more
Than just a Highland Welcome.
One Sunday while in the northern part of Scotland with Nicol, a friend of his, he visited the Carron Works which they had traveled some distance to see. There was a sign on the gate: "No Admittance to Strangers," which barred the poet and his friend. Here is an apostrophe by Burns in regard to the matter:
NO ADMITTANCE TO STRANGERS.
We cam' na here to view your warks
In hopes to be mair wise,
But only, lest we gang to hell,