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Western Star, 21 March 1922, Page 3

A London daily has the following: The "For an old song," acquired a richer meaning than its wont when one of Burns' lyrics, "0 wat ye wha's in yon town," fetched £155 at Sotheby's. True, the \mc& included Rabbies autograph, but the sono- itself must have accounted for half the bid. The song is' saicli to have been reeled off at Ecclefechan during a snowstorm which held up the newly-appointed exciseman ppet, but several claims of spontaneity made by Burns seem, to have'been built on shaky foundations. As the author of that time refused to take any remuneration for work that is ,now "synthetic gold," his memory may be pardoned a few lapses of. detail.