17 JANUARY 1976, Page 23

COMPETITION

No. 894: Scots wha hae

Set by M. K. Cheeseman: Burns Night this year by well be an occasion.for further outbursts ,I3), the Scottish Nationalists. A pity the poet himself isn't on hand to write up their cause. k .,,-ompetitors are asked to help out by providing the kind of verses he might have penned for his night in 1976. Limit, eighteen fines (permitting the so-called 'Burns stanza'). Entries to Competition No. 894' by February 2.