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At the age of sixteen, Burns went to Kirkoswald, ostensibly to study at Hugh Rodger’s school, but found he made ‘greater progress in the knowledge of mankind’. What this knowledge amounted to, Burns gladly specified: ‘scenes of swaggering riot and roaring dissipation were as yet new to me … I learned to look unconcernedly on a large tavern-bill, and mix without fear in a drunken squabble’ (AL). As a teenager, by his own admission, he enjoyed drink and tavern life.
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© 1991 Alan Bold
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Bold, A. (1991). Burns and Booze. In: A Burns Companion. Literary Companions. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21165-4_8
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