[NOTE S], [p. 119].
The following verses are no bad indication of the popular feeling respecting the incidents narrated above, and this is rendered the more characteristic by the national form in which it finds expression:—
THE BARRIN’ O’ OOR DOOR.
(A New Version o’ an Auld Sang,)
Dedicated without special permission to Sir Robert Christison, Bart., and intended to be sung at the next convivial meeting of the “Infirmary Ring.”
By Gamaliel Gowkgrandiose, M.D.
It fell aboot the New-Year time,
And a gay time it was then, oh!
That the lady students in oor auld toon