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* These clever verses appeared in the Tea-Tdble Miscellany, pt. ii., circa 1V25, signed with the initials " "W". AV." The air witlt tlie words
■was published in Thomson s Orpheus Caledonius^ vol. ii., 1733. Mr. Chambers remarks of this song that " As a picture of heali h-enjoying
youth, and high animal spirits, it is unsurpas-ed." '(he complete son^ is comprised of six verses. Tlie initials in the Tea-Table Miscellany
are said to den'ote William Walkinffshaw, of Walkingshaw, in Renfrewshire, who lived about the latter end of the I7th century. Jn Johnson's
Scots Musical Museum,, '* by Mr. V^ alkingnihaw " was inserted on the authority of Burns. It appears, however, that there was no William
in the family. David Laing considers that " W. W." means Wanton Willie," a sobriquet of ^Villie Hamilton, of Gilbertfield, a friend and
corres^nden't of Allan Kamsay.