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visited

Burns's

cabin in

1810, he

found it

converted

into a

public

house, and

the

landlord

who showed

it was

drunk.

"There,"

said he,

pointing

to a

corner on

one side

of the

fire, with

a most

MALAPROPOS

laugh-"there

is the

very spot

where

Robert

Burns was

born."

"The

genius and

the fate

of the

man," says

Curran,

"were

already

heavy on

my heart;

but the

drunken

laugh of

the

landlord

gave me

such a

view of

the rock