Burns Scolded by His Father

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 55, 18 October 1884, Page 3

Burns Scolded by His Father

„, ■" Burns' mother, their grandmother, they recollected well, and had often . beard her tell of the time when the family lived at Lochlea, and Kobert, spending his evenings at the Tar boltoL merrymakings witb the Bachelors' Club or the Masons, used to come home late in the night, and she used :to sit up to let him in. These doings sorely displeased the father, and at last he said firmly, one night, that he would sit up to open the door for Robert. Trembling with fear, the mother went to bed ami did i*ot close ..her eyes, listening apprehensively for the angry meeting b- tween father and son. She heard the door op?n,, the old man's stern tone, Robert's gay reply, and in a twinkling mere the twv were sitting together over the fire, the father splitting his sides with half unwilling laughter at boy's inimitable descriptions and of the scenes he had lett. > early two hours they eat there in this Way, the mother all the while cramming the bedclothes into lier mouth, lest her loud laughter should remind her husband how poorly lie was carry in& out- his threats. Alter that njght"'*.. Rob*' came home at what hiiiir he .pleased, and there wanothing more heard of bis father!^ sitfifti^ up to Throve him."