20 SEPTEMBER 1884, Page 16

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIS, - - - With reference to

the epitaph published in your paper of Saturday, the 6th, as taken from Cleish parish church, Fife- shire, Mr. H. Young, the proprietor of Cleish Castle, Kinross. shire, writes to say that there is no stone bearing this inscrip- tion, but that it was written by the poet Burns, and that the right version is ;—

"Beneath these stanes Lies Michie's banes," &c.