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Haggis', 'To a

Apparently written by Burns soon after his arrival in Edinburgh in 1786, possibly for a dinner at the house of Andrew Bruce, a merchant friend. This seems more probable than the legend that it was composed extempore during a dinner at the house of John Morrison, a Mauchline cabinet maker. It was the first of Burns's poems to be published in an Edinburgh periodical. For a contemporary recipe, see McIver, Susanna.
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