Friday, January 3, 2003

On Leaving Mrs. Brown's Lodgings Comments

Rating: 2.6

So goodbye, Mrs. Brown,
I am going out of town,
Over dale, over down,
Where bugs bite not,
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Sir Walter Scott
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Bill Wright 05 September 2016

I suspect this is a dig at some landlady in Edinburgh that he did not get on with. The city was quite a smelly and boisterous place in Scott's time.

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