Tan she'l gaed to her quarter house, The toor was unco pra',

For tere they had a cow's husband Was pricket on the wa'.

O tere we gat a shappin ale,
And tan we gat a supper,
A filthy choud o' chappit meat,
Was boil'd amang a butter.

It was a filthy dirty beef,

His bains was like te horn; She was a calf wanting the skin, Before that he was born.

Next day I'm gang upon the kirk,
To hear a lawland preach,
And mony a ponny sang they'l sing,
Tere pooks they did him teach.

And tere I saw a ponny mattam,
Wi' feathers on her wame,
I wonder an' she be gaun to flee,
Or what be in her min'.

Another mattams follow her,

Wha's nerse was round like cogs; And clitter clatter cries her feet, She had on iron brogues.

And tere I saw another mattam,
Into a tarry seck,

And twa poor man's be carry her,
Wi' rapes about hims neck.

She pe sae fu' o' fanity,

As no gang on the grun',
Put twa poor mans pe carry her,
In a barrow covered abune.

Some had a fish tail till her mouth,

And some pe had a bonnet,
Put my Shanet and Donald's wife,
Wad rather hae a bannock.

SUBURBS OF THE CITY.

GORBALS. This prosperous Barony, once an insignificant village, is situated on the south bank of the Clyde, opposite the city, running parallel with it nearly a mile. The origin of the ancient village, and the etymology* of its name, are rather uncertain; but ever since the building of the Old Bridge, it has been indifferently distinguished by the name of Gorbals, and that of Bridge-end. The village and barony, in 1571, were feued from Archbishop Porterfield, by Sir George Elphinston, merchant in Glasgow, and by his interest it was erected into a burgh of regality. The adjacent districts of Hutchesontown, Laurieston, and Tradeston, are not of ancient date, and have originated from the progressive extension of Gorbals.

ANDERSTON.-This suburb lies about a mile west from the cross of Glasgow, and on the same side of the Clyde. It derived its name from Anderson of Stobcross, who, as early as 1725, formed the design of erecting a village. The estate was purchased, in 1735, by John Orr, Esq. of Barrowfield, who found the projected village in a state of infancy, consisting only of a

* In the Celtic of the ancient Strathclyde Britons, "Gorbal" signifies the ample expansion, the wide level plat.

few thatched houses. By the proper encouragement of manufactures, however, it has quickly risen to be a large and populous suburb.

COWCADDENS.-This district derives its designation from the circumstance of it being anciently the grounds where the citizens pastured their cattle. The direct road leading to it from the city was through the West Port and up the Cow Loan.*

CALTON. At the commencement of the last century, this place was called Blackfauld, from the ground on the east of Glasgow, upon which it was built, having been formerly occupied as a fold for black cattle. This property was purchased in 1705, from the community of Glasgow, by Walkingshaw of Barrowfield, who first projected the village. It was chiefly completed, however, by John Orr, Esq., who acquired the Barrowfield

estate.

BRIDGETON.-This district is not of ancient date, and is so named from its vicinity to the bridge thrown over the river in 1777, leading to the ancient borough of Rutherglen.

*The site of Queen-Street.

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CHAPTER II.

REMARKABLE OLD EDIFICES FORMERLY EXTANT.

"Time has seen, that lifts the low,

And level lays the lofty brow;
Has seen this broken pile complete,

Big with the vanities of state."

PRIOR.

To a reflecting mind it is something more than merely amusing to mark the contrast betwixt Glasgow as it has been, and Glasgow as it is. When, from accident or design we find ourselves wandering among

"Those noble, stately domes, Where Scotia's kings, of other years, Fam'd heroes, had their royal home,"

it is impossible to resist the associations which are connected with a spot so venerable. We examine the dilapidated walls of the noble mansions which on all sides surround us, and discover symbols of their former importance. We gaze on the arched passways-the square courts the narrow windows-and the ruined

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offices, with an interest which no other circumstance than historical association can excite, and in one moment we are present with men of other times. We hear the clattering of horses feet,- -we see knights clad in armour, feudal dames mounted on spirited palfreys,— and obsequious esquires, moving like pieces of machinery, at the nod of their superiors. We are too intent on the usages of the feudal age to reflect on the long period of time which separates us from men who have mingled three hundred years with their native earth; and casting a melancholy glance on the marks of time which every where meet the eye, start from our abstraction with feelings of deep and reverent humiliation. There stand the walls on which our ancient monarchs and their courtiers, and "the monks of olden time" have often gazed, and these paved courts, which have often resounded to the tread of many a proud steed, now heavily answer to the whoop of noisy ragged little urchins, or to the more ponderous summons of some herculean mechanic, as he passes onward, unmindful either of the place or the imperishable associations with which they are connected.

Every thing has changed.-The chivalrous aristocracy and the lordly priesthood of these ages have gone, and with them outward turbulence and disorder, and chicanery and hypocrisy. No trace is left by which we might detect the habits and manners of people whose existence, chronologically speaking, is not remote; and the whole frame-work of society is so perfectly altered,