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Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5073, 18 April 1885, Page 3

THE STORY OF " SCOTLAND YET.'' Air E. Murray, writing from Gait, Ontario, to the Scottish American Journal, ««.-•• After the kindly remarks m one of your columns about the song of 'Scotland Yet. 1 the story of the sour may be ' if ome interest. It was told me by the iSthor himself, Mr-Keddell when residing J? Ramsay, Clenchburn, at Tefiothead. He Staking a daunder up a lonely glen on" morning, when, owing to a JreVlouUea.y fell of rain, the glen sides were brillknt and musical with little streamlets dancing their way down to tne winding burn, aß<* the birds were singing overhead. In such surroundings he exclaimed to himself, 'Thi. js a grand country after a, and then mused over it on bis way back to his. mother's liouso, where he sat down and wrote out hia iin* perishable song of • Scotland Yet.' That „m . diy he set out. across the bills to "STSi worthy friend 'The Ettrick Shepherd.' There be met with a literary lion-hunter from London, who had called to we Hogg, and who wanted from flowa leUefof introdoctiou to Peter McLeod, vurie composer in Edinburgh. Hogg ciked Liddell to write out the letter fop the »i«tor. He did so, and appended to the letter to McLeod a copy of-hi. hteit •creed, • Scotland Yet/ McLeod waa so taken up with it that he at once setmusie to it, and-sold it, mu«c and all, at one wiiinir a codv. He »cut a man through be with Aboard on Mi--tack, on which were inscribed the word, 'Scotland Yet, One Shilling.' The Wrer of the board was crer afterwards "taowSVai "ficoflMd Yet/ The sum r?»W by the selling.of {be song was - .pent on patting an irbu railing round Bnrns* monument on Calton Bui, Edm-