The Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and Criticism on His Writings; To Which Is Prefixed, Some Observations on the Character and Condition of the Scottish Peasantry (Classic Reprint)

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About this time (1792) he was solicited, to give his aid to Mr. Thomson's Collection of Scottish Songs. He wrote, with attention and without delay, for this work, all the songs which appear in this volume to which we have added those he contributed to John son's Musical Museum.

Burns also found leisure to form a society for pur chasing and circulating books among the farmers of the neighbourhood but these, however praiseworthy employments, still interrupted the attention he ought to have bestowed on his farm, which became so un productive that he found it convenient to resign it, and, disposing of his stock and cr0p, removed to a small house which he had taken in Dumfries, a short time previous to his lyric engagement with Mr. Thomson. He had now received from the Board of Excise, an appointment to a new district, the emoluments of which amounted to about seventy pounds sterling per annum.

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