He was
tortured, and, by an act of perjury (probably unconscious) on the
part of Lauderdale, was hanged. The sentiments of the poem are
such as an old cavalier, surviving to 1743, might perhaps have
entertained. 'Wullie Wanbeard' is a Jacobite name for the Prince
of Orange, perhaps invented only by the post-Jacobite sentiment of
the early nineteenth century.
BRITANNIA
ROUSSEAU'S DELIGHT.
The pervenche, or periwinkle.
A TOAST
One of the college bells Of St. Salvator, mentioned by Ferguson, is
called 'Kate Kennedy'; the heroine is unknown, but Bishop Kennedy
founded the College. 'Kate Kennedy's Day' was a kind of carnival,
probably a survival from that festivity.
THE DISAPPOINTMENT.
As a matter of fact the Haunted House Committee of the Society for
Psychical Research have never succeeded in seeing a ghost.
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