| Description | Letter: Rev. George Williams, Thornhill, Stirling.
Gives text of 'Auld Warrack's plough feast' as recited to him twenty years earlier by John Leys, Kirkton of Cushnie, with references to the appearance of verses in 'Aberdeen Free Press' of 19 September 1891 and versions in 'Scot. Notes and Queries' ii., 91, and iv. 119; comments on 'Tarlan Law', supposed to have been written by William Thomson, Glack of Migvie, and gives fragments of song celebrating tobogganing accident at Cushnie a hundred years before, with refrain 'On the nicht o' Fastern's even'. |