Author: Barrowsgate
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Time and the Plooman
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Time may have stolen the ploughman’s worldly goods, but he won’t take Barrowsgate’s Doric from him.
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The Master’s Voice
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In a dream, Barrowsgate sees Rabbie Burns, who is disgusted at the greed and hypocrisy of modern life.
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A keek in the windae
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The author peeps through the window of his beloved’s bedroom and is shocked to see her with another man. Eventually, he realises that what he thought was another man is, in fact, a picture of himself.
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The Clan Murray Gatherin’
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Barrowsgate wrote this amusing verse for a Murray family get-together (Mrs B was, of course, Janet Murray). It was held in October 1956 at Inchmarlo School, where Chrissy Murray was the Headteacher. This was quite a significant event. All seven Murray siblings attended, with a combined age (as Barrowsgate observes) of 467 years. It would…
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This Show Business
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The chemist tells Barrowsgate about his recent visit to a cattle show. Note: This was published in the Mearns Leader in 1956. There do not appear to be any other articles by Barrowsgate published around this time (he was 74 by then).