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(Continued from Page 13.
Guld Concell
and if ever there were a man who finest intellect that ever came to Simpson said:-Mr. President, Mr. to this loved his fellow-man, it was the China, of Bob Lyall, the great Kay, Gentlemen, replying man we hold in our hearts to-night. ladies' man on the night of the toast is for me a great honour and Το answer for the Like Abou Ben Adbem, he would Ball. Of Geordie Altken who liv-pleasure. not be a Holy Willie and boast of ed in mortal terror of Muster lassics, must be a pleasure for any man, and I shoudn't mention it; his love of God, but like modest old Gillies, especially when Muster but it gives me special pleasure Abou, he would ask to be written Gillies pulled off his hat and flung for a special reason. Burns once down an one that loved his fellow it on the ground and stamped on visited my native place. He liked it We Scots are often told that we men, and Hike him would find his it, and of Fraser Smith who start- so well, that he wrote a poem ask- courting have a good concert of ourselves. name "lead all the rest." He noted the "Hong Kong Telegraph," ing a bony loss hat Well. why shouldn't we? A coun- only loved them but he sang to edited it in gaol and addressed with him there. That poem, The try that could produce such ex-them, and to us who come after, of letters to the public from "The Birks o'Amerfeldy, is still a popular song. It was, along with the Auld tremes as Robert Burns and John the glorious privilege of being in Prisoner Behind the Bars!" Knox may well be proud of itself. dependent and taught us that an Last but not least the great Sir Hundred, the first poetry I over
read. And we are not lacking in other honest man's the noblest work of Patrick Manson and Jeems Cantlle. But Sir, it must often have struck testimonials, for Dr. Johnson, when God and the Peer of any belted) Gentlemen, these men, these you that there is something odd he got off his celebrated, gibe about Knight or noble Lord.
ghosts, have passed the lamp on to about this toast being proposed by Oats for horses and-men, was silent |
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flame of love of our Country, old tion. I suspect it is a tradition finer men than those brought up on poet for all time, but beyond that burning clear and high.
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a
"THE LASSIES."
Mr. Kay's Humorous Toast.
turea and things, the poor field- mouse and the modest crimson-tip- pit dalsy, and nothing he wrote is, I think, more exquisite than his lines to those two lowly objects. From the highest to the lowest all Mr. W. Kay proposed "The were his brithers,"
Lassies." He commenced by say
Take Warning.
Perhaps Mr. Kay is waiting till
he is ten years richer, to marry someone twenty years younger. If let him take warning from Burns' expression of the sentiments
60
of Spring married to Winter.
"What can a young lassie, what
shall a young lassie,
What can a young lassie do wi
an auld man?
Bad luck on the pennie that
tempted my Minie
To sell her poor Jenny for
siller an' lan"?"
But with all his affection for his ing. "I consider it a piece of He may find, that, instead of be- of his you that a great modern Painter, brither-men, he was not blind to presumption to propose the tonst ing rejoiced by the wife great modern Foet and our present their faults, and when necessary he of the lassies, as I do not suppose bosom,
"He's peevish and jealous of a' Prime Minister are all direct des- could scourge bypocrites and Holy anyone knows less about them cendants of George Macdonald, Winies with words of everlasting the subject is a most ticklish one.
than I do. However, I admit that'
the young fellows" When I tell him this I think I am, true Scots Preacher, Poet and scorn and contempt. He might as
Mr.
to Kay proceeded ex In every sense of the phrase, an Mystic.
: he says "Keek thro' other men with plain at length how he came swering for the lassies. I hope, I sharpened sly inspection," but lito be proposing the toast. am also answering for the lassics
was, he asserted, I only mention this in passing as fear the glass in his hand often in- It
a con-when I quote again His spiracy on the part of several
"A man may drink and a modest people and too terfered with his judgment.
and commenced gome
drunk; much given to hiding our lights. faults were those of all such warm friends,
In the end he had But all the same who is like us? generous natures, but he was ever weeks ago,
to consent,
we are
A Modest People.
That Burna was a true Poet we on the side of the poor oppressed been prevailed upon
So here he was, an old bachelor, have the witness of Tennyson who honest man and swift to resent in proposing a toast that, somehow, declared there, never was immortal justice or arrogance. Poct if Burne be not one, and of
Holds His Own.
Swinburne and Watson, two Maa- As a Poet, as a Singer, It needs tera of Melody, who have sung of more eloquence than I possess to do Burns in lines which stir the blood him justice. In humour and pathos of every Scotsman. Doubtless you he holds his own with the best. know them, but I may repeat a few What can be finer than the humour
D
no be
A man may fight and no be
slain;
A man may kiss a bonny loss, ...And
nye be welcome back always seemed to fall to the lat
again* of a bachelor, rather than
Well-For a Bachelor, married man. Why, he asked, was **Is
Mr. Kay has spoken well; for a not a married man chosen? words to express his admiration of bachelor that Burns said his best It because he cannot find the bachelor. But it was not as
the lassies?" (Laughter).
verses on The Tarholton Lasses, The Mauchline Belles, on, Clarinda Mongolian Philosopher.
a
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alone, not to and Braes" and "Mary Morrison" If I have a wife?' and he answer-perfect in their kind. But deeper ed, most emphatically, "No! In its sweetness, more potent in its How rich and strange the human ing to be comforted is there in the the Mongolian philosopher replied, his monument in the Square of and what a world of sorrow refus-asked, 'Why do you say that, and national influence, is what he wrote
after marriage, now inscribed three ample words "My Nanie's 'Because when catchee wife, she Dumfries. How worm the tints of life; how awa."
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To weans and wife, Mr. Kay then quoted references in literature when I say that to us
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ADIOL STEEL
* Suce and certain ing all Female
we plakate. Every lady should keep
a boa in the house, Cămmistamid Strew
(pal) (hem thronghout the world.
This is what Watson says; He came when Poets had forgot
lot;
Are Love and Hate,
verse:
on"
That's the true pathos and
sublime
Of human life."
Before he was able to write that, Burns had given up much. A
And what makes truth divine, and Scots Burns is abune them a, his to the other sex, which, he said,
what
adngs will live for ever and be sung appeared to be a warning to mere Makes Manhood great.
as Auld Lang Syne is sung now in man. There was, for instance, the For mid an edge of dust and every corner of the world by all
dearth
kinds and races of men.
But no "When Adam slept, Eve from famous critic, not always favour- prophet is honoured in his own his side arose:
able to Burns, has said that the Strange that his first sleep three things necessary to the sup- country and Robert Burns 'and'a
Once more had bloomed immortal
worth.
There in the strong splenetic
North.
The Spring began.
A mighty mother had
• forth
A mighty man.
be
He erred, he sinned, and if there
Who, from his hapless frailties
free, Rich in the poorer virtues, see
His faults alone-
all his life.
far greater than Robert Burns were should be his last reposo!" .port of genius are "prosperity, made to feel how ungrateful this He averred, "What I do know social acquaintance, and applause. world can be to its noblest souls. about women I have got out of Burns found these in Edinburgh in brought Burns sang his whole soul out to books," and continued to remark 1787. He might have enjoyed them
the world and we know what he got that, when he was very, very
Returned to Jean. In return, And now Gentlemen I young, he used to read stories of have kept tryste with the (Chief and then a princess appeared, and risen to even greater heights than heroes killing dragons and giants, With their support he might have tain who commanded me to be here they married and lived happily the pinnacle on which he is now to-night for Scottish Chiefs do not ever afterwards. But later he established. But he chose to re- aak, they command. Saying to this found they were described as fairy turn to Jean Armour. He thought man Go and he goth and so I will tales! If they took the poets, they that a small farm, or £50 a year detain you no longer. The old lady found such references as the fol- as an Exciseman, in the country complained that Hamlet was no-lowing by Shakespeare, "Woman, with a wife and family, was worth thing but quotations, so I have thy name is frailty:" yet there more than prosperity, social ac- And this is what Swinburne done my best to avoid that fault were also such statements as,quaintance, or growing fame. The Roman Mark Antony is usually in- gays:-
and not carry coals to Newcastle by "Men were deceivers ever."
Lines to the Lassies.
stanced as the symbal of the world Had he Above the storms of praise and quoting Burns to you.
However, said Mr. Kay, to be well lost for love, But the Roman blame
never written, anything more than more serious, the finest lines ever is an ignoble example, as compared That blur with mist his lustrous Auld Lang Syne, he would have dedicated to the lassies were those with the Scottish Robbie Burns. been immortal, for it is matchless, by Burns himself, and they ran: Hio thunderous laughter went although there is a song that is
even more dear to us than Auld| “Auld „Nature Lang Syne.
To such, O Lord of Charity,
Be mercy shown;
name,
and came
.
And lives and files, The roar. that follows
flame When Lightning dies.
on the
Then too there is a fine tribute from America by Lowell for Burns' Centenary, which deserves to be better known than it is.
swears the lovely
dears Her noblest work she classes. 0.
Her prentice han' she tried on man,
An' then she made the leases,,O!"
Women, since the days of Burns,
„That Sir," is why the toast fa so important on this anniversary. And that is why I am glad to be able to say on behalf of the lassies that I thank Mr. Kay for what he has so
admirably said, and thank you for
the spirit with which you have ronoured the toast.
Mr. Kay has erstwhile given ex-
"I hae been blythe w' comrades
dear;
A Great Song. The two songs have gone, round the world together and into many strange places, but the one I refer to is buried even deeper in the had shaken off the shackles and pression to a strange. Bachelor's memory of every Scottish lad from were now competing with men as Philosophy in "A Dominic's Dog- childhood, and wherever he may be doctors, lawyers, and In business. gerel." But what he has said to- his heart will beat and his breast (A voice, "And with the school night is a worthier expression of.
In Scotland, the first the more typically Scottish creed will swell at the first sound of those master!") Burning Words.
noble old words. Need I tell you woman to become a lawyer had which Burns versified when he
had her birth-Miss Carrie Mor-wrate.¦ For me to attempt to add to the gentlemen what that song is? I
rison. The first woman sea-going burning words of these two poets think you have guessed it, I am engineer had also come from Scot- would in the words of Shakespeare sure Mr. Maconachie could tell you. land-Miss Drummond, Also, the Chang Tong Ha Hong, from be wasteful and ridiculous excess. It is the 23rd Psalm.
only team to have a woman on the Osezakiradio.
But I will venture one remark. Just one more word. There are board of directors WAB the There are some who seem to think ghosts in this room to-night, gen- Edinburgh Hibs. (Applause). that the Scottish posts must be in tlemen. The spirits the past sre ferior to the English Poets. Well with us here to-night and when you let us see. We will take Gray, a drink in silence to the Immortal would they, or any famous men. In serious vein he asked, where highly cultured man and a fair re- Memory of our beloved Poet, our have been without the women; presentative of English poetry.own Rantin, Rovin Robin, cast your their mothers?. It was to their Let us see how he and Burns dea-thoughts back to the men who have mothers, particularly between six cribe the dying, day,
gone before you.
and sixteen, at the time of their impressionable years, that they
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Ghosts.
O Woman!
Gray's line "the curfew tolls the knell of parting 'day" la fine, but To Phineas Ryrie, the founder of owed a great deal in the moulding does it come up to the quiet beauty this Society and truly the King of the womenfolk was predomin
of their character. The influence, and aimplicity of "The wintry sun amang us n', his fine figure re-ant, and had a great deal to do the day has closed?" I do not splendent in his Tartan from far with the honour of the achieve think so. It is the difference be--
away Skye,
ments of men, in history, science, tween the two men.. One Is ornate To Scott of Taikoo, a man after and in civilisation.......... and artificial, the other is simple my own heart and to his and my He would quote the very apt and natural. There is too, the dif- friend Fullarton Henderson, the lines of Sir Walter Scott: ference in the setting: One was wittiest and most attractive of thinking of the rich soil and the speakers,
"O woman, in our hours of ease
And variable, as the shade
Itat beeves of the South, the other To Beancake Billy, a great Mer- Uncertain, coy and hard to please, of the bitter biting North and Its chant Prince, and to James the By the light quivering aspen made! wind-swept fields.
A Man:
Polite who was indeed always the When pain and anguish wring the Pink of Courtesy and a fine man brow It is not only as a great poet that for all that,
The Gillen who A ministering angel, thou
made theor we rejoice in Burns, we love him
Therefore they owed the most to even more because he was a Man Dock and his Crony o Mine, with a large hearted love for his Murray Bain, of the "China Mall the lassies, "Good luck to them, fellow-man. Some perhaps, who Time falls me to tell of Godeon and God bless them!(Applause); are not great-minded, may murmur and Barak, that Is to any of Bandy The Reply. "and fellow women but much is Gordon and David Wood, of Sandy Replying to the toast of forgiven to those who love much; Thomson, said to have been the Jassies, Professor R. K.
I has been merry drinking; I hae been joyfu' gath'rin gear; I hae been happy thinking; But a' the pleasures eré I saw,
-Tho' three times doub'd fairly, That happy night was worth
them a',
yau
Amang the rigs o'barley."
On behalf of the lassies I thank
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