e had a good knowledge of english, a reading knowledge of french, and a fairly wide acquaintah the masterpieces of english literature from the time of shakespeare to his own day. in 1766 william burness rented on borrowed mohe farm of mount oliphant, and in taking his share in the effort to make this uaking succeed, the future poet seems to have seriously overstrained his physique. in 1771 the family move to lochlea, and buro the neighb town of irvio learn fx-dressing. the only result of this experiment, however, was the formation of an acquaintah a dissipated sailor, whom he afterward bmed as
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