A Sang for Rabbie

By DOROTHY DUNBAR

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978-0-85174-479-7

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When Robert Burns visits Stewarton, he encounters three bonnet-makers intent on selling him a bonnet and inducing him to write a poem about them. They act out one of the village tales about their local witch, Needle Nell, but Robert's fancy is taken by a young milk maid who enters singing an old weaving melody. He goes off with this girl, to write down her song, and the bonnet-makers have to console themselves with the news of a knitting factory to be set up in the village¡­.