...answered very well to the description of the infernal piper in Tarn O'Shanter : " A winnock-bunker in the east There sat Auld Nick in shape o' beast,...grim and large, To gie them music was his charge." To this popular notion of the impersonation of the principle of evil, we are doubtless indebted for...

...France, But hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels, Put life and mettle in their heels. A winnock-bunker in the east, There sat auld Nick in shape o' beast ; A towzie Here is what the editor of the ' Witchcraft Trials ' so justly calls a display of " imagination." What...

...But hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels. Put life and mettle in their heels. A winnock-bunkerb in the east, There sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast ; A towzie tyke,c black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge ; He screw 'd the pipes and gartd them...

...strathspeys, and reels, Put life and mettle in their heels. A winnock-bunkcr in the east, There sat auld Kick in shape o' beast ; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and...them skirl, - Till roof and rafters a' did dirl.— Coffins stood round like open presses, That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses ; And by some devilish...

...question—the question is what business? Was it a ball given him on the anniversary of the Fall ? " There sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast; A towzie tyke,...grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge:" • and pray who is to pay the piper ? We fear that young witch Nannie! " For Satan glowVd, and fidged...

...question—the question is what business ? Was it a ball given him on the anniversary of the Fall ? " There sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was hia charge:" and pray who is to pay the piper ? We fear that young witch Nannie! " For Satan glow'r'd,...

...There sat auld Nick, in shape o'beast; A touzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was bis charge; He screw'd the pipes, and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl Coffins stood round like open presses, That shaw'il the de/ul in their last dresses; And, by some devilish...

...heels. A winnock-hunker in the east, There sat auld Nick in shape o' heast ; A towzic tyke, hlack, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge : He screw'd his pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirL — Coffins stood round like open...

...But hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels, Put life and mettle in their heels. As winnock-bunker, in the east, There sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast ; A touzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge ; He screw VI the pipes, and...

...association recalled by a visit to these sepulchral dormitories with " The winnock-bunker in the east, Where sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast ; A towzie tyke,...grim, and large, To gi'e them music was his charge." In perfect harmony -with such objects of venerated devotion and means of exciting homage and liberality...