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the tack of it. After some little trouble, we were a good deal 

 amused to fiiid that the writing in question really consisted of the 

 following lines : — 



' ' I am a note of the British Linen ; 

 I've long been kept by L. Mackinnon ; 

 Where'er you go you'll find them willing 

 To give for me just twenty shilling. — L. M'K." 



We have no idea who this poetical L. Mackinnon is or was, but it 

 is pretty evident, we think, that both he and the British Linen 

 Company's Bank note had very excellent opinions of themselves. 

 It was Lady Louisa Stewart, if we rightly recollect, who sent Sir 

 Walter Scott a copy of the following lines, which she discovered 

 on the back of a battered bank note which had come into her 

 possession. It will be observed that they are in all respects im- 

 measurably superior to Mr. L. Mackinnon's : — 



" Farewell, my note, and wheresoe'er ye wend, 

 Shun gaudy scenes, and be the poor man's friend ; 

 You've left a poor one ; go to one as poor, 

 And drive despair and hunger from his door." 



Let cynics growl and snarl as they list, some people have hearts, 

 and the author of the above lines, be sure, had a right warm and 

 kindly one. 



