SPORTING.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1970, 21 February 1885, Page 2

SPORTING.

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Prol hSSOHBuSt'KIhSMJNDVY Lt( ITKK. — On a icccnt .Sunday night St Amliew's Hall, Glasgow, was crowded by poisons wishing to hear the aged Piofcst>or Black ie deliver a lectuie, under the auspices of the Sunday Society, on •• The Love songs of Scotland." Piofessor lilackie said some people would think him piofane for speaking of love on a Sunday, but what was woith being said on a week day could be said oil Sunday. (Applause.) Though the giouml was slippery he matched boldly into the subject, feaiing no man except the reporteitt — (laughtei)— and they were not such terrible fellows after all. (Renewed laughter.) He admired love songs, especially those of Robert Uur-ib, whose iuspiiation was right, though Ins life was often wrong. The three gloncs of Scotland all commenced with .in " ,8" namely, atnnons, songs, and shillings. Strinona were represented by l)r Chalmers, songs by Robert Burns, and shillings by Adam Smith. (Applause.) To elevate, stir, and purify a man, songs were 11101 c potent than Mentions. (Applause.) One of the songs ho loved was " Will ye gang to the Kelvin (>iove, Bonnie Lassie, 0." Professor Blackic then tendered thin song, and complied with an cncoie. He loved in addition to songs a beautiful woman, for she was like iniihic in Ins car. (Applause.) He never looked at her ankles. (Great laughter.) It was the face he admired, nnd if there wns a soul within it would thine out as ceitainly as the sun did exct pt through the smoky country bjtwe 'it I irtniugham and Wohcihampton, ( iiu t laughter and applause.)