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the kilmarnoe tained, besides satire, a number of poems like “the twa dogs” and “the cotter's saturday night,” which are vividly descriptive of the scots peasant life with which he was most familiar; and a group like “puir mailie” and “to a mouse,” which, ienderness of their treatment of animals, revealed one of the most attractive sides of burns' personality. many of his poems were never printed during his lifetime, the most remarkable of these being “the jolly beggars,” a pie which, by the iy of his imaginative sympathy and the brilliance of his teique, he renders a picture of the lowest dregs of society in such a way
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