Robert Burns

ít is aniusing to learu that Burus, wben jn.-t emerging irom obsenrity, joonlarJy anticipated that bis birthday would come to be uoted amoug other remarkable event.s. In a letter to bis carly patrón, (iavin Hannitou, in l?8(i, he says: "For tny own affairs 1 aru in a í'aü" way of bccomiug as enaineut as Thomas a Kempis or John Bunyan, and you may henueíorth expect to see ruy jirthday inscribed anjong the wonderfnl eveuts in the Foor Robin and Abordeen Almanacks along with the Black Monday and the battle of Bothwell Bridge. " -