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Peacock
According to Burns, 'a scoundrel of the first water, who made money by the mystery of thieving'. Peacock practised flax dressing in Irvine in a shop in the Glasgow Vennel. He may have been a distant relative of Burns's mother, and the poet may have stayed with him when he went to Irvine to learn the flax business. At any rate, the connection ended when the shop was burned out during what the poet called 'a welcome carousal to the New Year'.
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