The Heart Of Robert Burns

Robert Burns was present once when a little boy was asked which of the poet’s works he liked best. The boy’s mind evidently clung with delight to the recollection of “The Twa Dogs ;“ but he exclaimed, “I like ‘The Cottar’s
Saturday Night’ far best, though it made me cry when my father had me read it to my mother.”

The poet, with a sudden start, looked into the boy’s face intently, and patting him on the cheek, said, the tear glistening in his eye, “Well, my gallant, it made me cry too, more than once, when I was writing it at my father’s fireside.”

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