SCOTCH BRACKEN.
A poignant appeal on behalf of tho poor and downtrodden was made by a speaker, an Irishman, at the meeting of the Sydenham Burgesses Association last night. "In the words of tho immortal poet, Bracken," he declaimed, by way of peroration, "man b inhumanity to man makes countless, thousands mourn." Tho sound of tho familiar linos roused up a sturdy &oc. "The quotation is a' right." ho eaid, "but tho lines wero writton by Robbio Burna, and not by any Brno'con. Someone queried his statement. 1 never hoard a' this Bracken," waa the reply, "but I'm a Scotchman mywlf ; and I know Burns when I hear him. The first party then acknowledged that tlie lines belonged to tho Scottish bard.
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13903, 30 November 1910, Page 9
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