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Posted By: GUEST,rory
26-Oct-20 - 08:10 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Echo Mocks the Corncrake / Corncraik
Subject: RE: Origins: Echo Mocks the Corncrake / Corncraik
"The Corncraik Amang the Whinny Knowes"

Printed in The Poet's Box, Saturday morning Sep 12, 1868,
'The MS of this song was kindly presented to the Poet by Mr Thomas Miller.'

As seen in the Bodleian Library, 2806 c.11(39)

The Poet's Box was a broadside ballad publisher/printer in Glasgow that operated between 1849 to 1911.

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