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Title: Reminiscences of Glasgow and the West of Scotland
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Mackenzie, Peter, 1799-1875
Subjects: Trials Secret Service Glasgow (Scotland)
Publisher: Glasgow : J. Tweed, 1865-1868
Contributing Library: University of Guelph Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Scottish Studies Foundation (Canada)

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ir, Esq., J.P., who purchased it some years ago, and who, we dare say, will not let it slip thriftlessly away from his family. Thus ends our truthful story, disconnected as it may seem, about the old Town-Clerk and his affairs, leaving us to enter into other chapters of greater interest to the good people of Glasgow. Ask what is life—the sire replies With disappointment lowering in his eyes, A painful passage, oer a restless flood, A vain pursuit of fugitive false good, A scene of fancied bliss and heartfelt care, Closing at last in darkness and despair. The poor inured to drudgery and distress, Act without aim, think little, and feel less, And no where but in feignd Arcadian scenes Taste happiness, or know what pleasure means. Eiches are passed away from hand to hand, As fortune, vice, or folly may command; As in a dance, the pair that take the lead, Turn downward, and the lowest pair succeed, So shifting and so various is the plan, By which heaven rules the mixd affairs of man. Cowper.
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AND THE WEST OF SCOTLAND. 75 CHAPTER VI HAWKIE. The life long past is ours no more, The flying hours are gone, Like transitory dreams givn oer, Whose images are kept in store, By memory alone. The real name of the character we are about to describe under this title of Hawkie, was William Cameron, born of very humble parents, at St Ninians, near Stirling, towards the end of the last century. He died in the Old Towns Hospital of Glasgow, in Clyde Street, in or about the month of September, 1851. He may be said to have been, for a period of thirty years, one of the greatest and wittiest beggars that ever infested the streets of Glasgow. In truth, he held the most extraordinary sway in it which any man of his calibre ever did, for he irresistibly attracted the attention of the rich as well as the poor—the young and the old, all ranks and conditions of men, from the highest to the lowest station; aye,and of ladies also from the highest to the lowest grade; his speeches and appeals to them when he

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