excerpt from 'W.F. Frame Tells His Own Story' pp. 60–62 (276 words)
excerpt from 'W.F. Frame Tells His Own Story' pp. 60–62 (276 words)
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During one of my Inverness visits, I was singing a song entitled “Weedow Magraw,” with the chorus:― “A’ the heilan’ laudies want tae mairry Jean Magraw, The song became popular―and everybody was singing the chorus. The curious part of the business was that there happened to be a well-known widow of the same name in the district, and imagine my consternation when one morning I received a letter from the lady, informing that she was instituting proceedings against me for “inflamation” [sic] of character. […] […] To soothe the lady’s feelings, and to make amends for the “inflamation” of character, I paid her a visit, and very soon persuaded her into good humour. She accepted an invitation to a front seat in the hall that night, where, I told her, I would make a public apology. The first woman there was the weedow. When I came on, I informed the audience that I wished to make an apology, and that I would do so by changing the chorus of my song “Weedow Magraw”; this is the revised chorus:― “There’s no a man in a’ the toon wid mairry Jean Magraw, The widow resented the apology, and became so excited, and used such a flow of threatening language that she had to be ejected. |
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