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Carlins', 'The Five
The Election Ballad Burns wrote when Sir James Johnstone and Patrick Miller junior were contesting the seat of the Dumfries burghs. The burghs are represented by figurative characters. 'Maggy by the banks o' Nith, a dame wi' pride enough' was Dumfries; 'Marjory o' the mony Lochs, a carlin auld and teugh' was Lochmaben; 'Blinkin Bess of Annandale' was Annan; 'Whisky Jean that took her gill, in Galloway sae wide' was Kirkcudbright; and 'Black Joan frae Crichton-Peel, o' gypsy kith and kin' was Sanquhar. Miller won the election.
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