The History of Leith

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October 18, 2006

Caledonia’s Determination

This political poem begins: ‘Caledonia no more by Tories be school’d, / Too long by the knaves she’s already been ruin’d: / And the Whig’s but a Tory in sheep-skin disguise, / On the loaves and the fishes each fixes his eyes’. Although there are no publication details available for this sheet, the subject matter suggests it was most likely published during the 1830s. for more click here

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