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66 POPULAR RHYMES OF SCOTLAND.
INHABITANTS OF GLASGOW, GREENOCK, AND PAISLEY.
Glasgow people, Greenock folk, and Paisley bodies.
These words are understood to convey the popular sense
of the comparative social importance of the inhahitants of
the three great towns of the west : the inhabitants of Glas-
gow being called 2^^ople, on account of their wealth and
citizenly dignity : the Greenockians folk, as expressive
of their homely respectability : while the Paisley bodies
(how far deservedly, would admit of much question) are at
the bottom of the scale. Some years ago, when a public
dinner was given to Professor Wilson of Edinburgh in
Paisley, which is his native place, on his speaking of it
as a town containing such and such a number of soids,
his friend Thomas Campbell, who sat by his side, whis-
pered — ' Bodies, you mean.'
GLASGOW, LINLITHGOW, AND FALKIRK.
Glasgow for bells,
Litbgow for wells,
Falkirk for beans and pease.
The numerous churches of Glasgow account for its share
in this old rhyme. Linlithgow, lying in a hollow beside
slopes which abound in springs, has several copious pubhc
fountains in the principal street, particularly one near the
East Port, with a figure of St Michael, the patron saint of
the town, over it, and the inscription, ' St Michael is kind
to strangers ; ' having evidently been designed for the re-
freshment of weary travellers. Another is of very com-
plicated and rather elegant architecture, with many quaint
figures carved in stone — being the substitute and fac-
simile of a previous structure built in 1620. Falkirk,
situated close beside the rich alluvial lands called the Carse
of Stirling, was from early times noted as a market for
beans and pease.
MUSSELBURGH.
The honest toun o' Musselburgh.
The motto to the armorial bearings of INIusselburgh is
< Honesty.' In the New Statistical Account of Scotland^
INHABITANTS OF GLASGOW, GREENOCK, AND PAISLEY.
Glasgow people, Greenock folk, and Paisley bodies.
These words are understood to convey the popular sense
of the comparative social importance of the inhahitants of
the three great towns of the west : the inhabitants of Glas-
gow being called 2^^ople, on account of their wealth and
citizenly dignity : the Greenockians folk, as expressive
of their homely respectability : while the Paisley bodies
(how far deservedly, would admit of much question) are at
the bottom of the scale. Some years ago, when a public
dinner was given to Professor Wilson of Edinburgh in
Paisley, which is his native place, on his speaking of it
as a town containing such and such a number of soids,
his friend Thomas Campbell, who sat by his side, whis-
pered — ' Bodies, you mean.'
GLASGOW, LINLITHGOW, AND FALKIRK.
Glasgow for bells,
Litbgow for wells,
Falkirk for beans and pease.
The numerous churches of Glasgow account for its share
in this old rhyme. Linlithgow, lying in a hollow beside
slopes which abound in springs, has several copious pubhc
fountains in the principal street, particularly one near the
East Port, with a figure of St Michael, the patron saint of
the town, over it, and the inscription, ' St Michael is kind
to strangers ; ' having evidently been designed for the re-
freshment of weary travellers. Another is of very com-
plicated and rather elegant architecture, with many quaint
figures carved in stone — being the substitute and fac-
simile of a previous structure built in 1620. Falkirk,
situated close beside the rich alluvial lands called the Carse
of Stirling, was from early times noted as a market for
beans and pease.
MUSSELBURGH.
The honest toun o' Musselburgh.
The motto to the armorial bearings of INIusselburgh is
< Honesty.' In the New Statistical Account of Scotland^
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