But I am half a Scot by birth, and bred A whole one; and my heart flies to my head As "Auld Lang Syne" brings Scotland, one and all Scotch plaids, Scotch snoods, the blue hills and clear streams, The Dee, the Don, Balgounie's brig's black wall All my boy feelings, all my gentler dreams Of what I then dreamt, clothed in their own pall, Like Banquo's offspring...

An' let me seethere's the thorn where the cushats biggit; an' there's the auld birk that I ance fell aff an' left my shoe sticking i' the cleft.

Giving a new ardor to revolutionary tendencies,Burns revolted against the orthodoxy of the "Auld Lichts," depicting its representatives as ludicrously hypocritical.

And I'm not very auld,

I tell you that has the true heart-stuff in itnow" They roared out a verse of "Auld Lang Syne," with execrable attempts at part-singing, little Dan Lefferts, a dissolute house-painter, contributing a tenor that was simply maniacal.

As the 'bus started, the strains of "Auld Lang Syne" floated to us again, and we knew the day was lost.

From Skeyhan's to Hoffmuller's, from Hoffmuller's to the City Hotel, the crowd sang and shouted its irregular progress, the air being "Auld Lang Syne.

I'm a gittin' too auld now.

I'm gaein' hame to see my mither She'll be weel acquant or this, Sair we'll muse at ane anither, 'Tween the auld word an' new kiss.

Here, aneath, I ca' ye father: Auld names we'll nor tyne nor spare; A' my sonship I maun gather, For the Son is King up there.

For a few years his life of alternate toil and dissipation was occasionally illumined by his splendid lyric genius, and he produced many songs"Bonnie Doon," "My Love's like a Red, Red Rose," "Auld Lang Syne," "Highland Mary," and the soul-stirring "Scots wha hae," composed while galloping over the moor in a stormwhich have made the name of Burns known wherever the English language is spoken, and honored wherever Scotchmen gather together.

The New Town was in progress when Sydney Smith and his pupil took refuge in 'Auld Reekie.'

In the capacity of house boy it was his duty to run errands and take care of a little white boy, Tommy Auld, the son of his mistress for the time being, Mrs. Sophia Auld.

Mrs. Auld was of a religious turn of mind; and, from hearing her reading the Bible aloud frequently, curiosity prompted the boy to ask her to teach him to read.

Douglass lived in the family of Hugh Auld at Baltimore for seven years.

He fell to the share of Mrs. Lucretia Auld, his masters daughter, who sent him back to Baltimore, where, after a month's absence, he resumed his life in the household of Mrs. Hugh Auld, the sister-in-law of his legal mistress.

He fell to the share of Mrs. Lucretia Auld, his masters daughter, who sent him back to Baltimore, where, after a month's absence, he resumed his life in the household of Mrs. Hugh Auld, the sister-in-law of his legal mistress.

His mistress, Lucretia Auld, had died in the mean time; and the new household in which he found himself, with Thomas Auld and his second wife, Rowena, at its head, was distinctly less favorable to the slave boy's comfort than the home where he had lived in Baltimore.

Amid the ringing of bells, the waving of flags, and the gratulations of the people, the procession proceeded through a few of the principal streets, and then drove to the beautiful residence of Professor Morse, the band playing, as they entered the grounds, 'Sweet Home' and then 'Auld Lang Syne.'

After Miss Antoinette Sterling had sung "Auld Lang Syne," to the great delight of the audience, who recalled her several times, Chief Justice Charles P. Daly introduced Professor Morse in an appropriate address.

Not that she wanted the vivacity of her age, but that it was tempered by periods of serious musing, when all kinds of what the Scotch call "auld farrant" (far yont) thoughts come to be where they should not be, the consequence being a weird-like kind of wisdom, very like that of the aged; so the effect on a creature so constituted was just equal to the cause.

Then they voted to go around and congratulate Tug once more upon his victory, and give him three cheers for the sake of auld lang syne.

I cannot smile at the hopes of the boy Burns, "That he, for poor auld Scotland's sake, Some usefu' plan or beuk could make, Or sing a sang at least.

"You whirled them to the back of beyont to look at the auld Roman camp.

May the Devil fly away with these artists; though no sooner had he done so than we should be 'wae' for auld Nicky-ben.