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The
Snug is aptly named as eight can be called a crowd
in this bar which was originally the tack room
where the harness and tack were kept during Robert
Burns frequent visits.
 
Bars were not common place in those times and
serving wenches with jugs in hand were the mode
used for dispensing either tu'penny ale or claret.
 In
this room the walls are covered with many pictures.
On one side is Burns and his most famous poem
Tam O'Shanter, and on the other side the common
riding called Guid Nychburris which re-enacts
each year the marking of the Dumfries town boundaries,
the town being a Royal Burgh having received its
charter over 800 years ago.
The two gentlemen festooned in chains are Mr.
Matthew McKerrow who purchased the Globe in 1937
and his son Mr. George McKerrow, both World Burns
Federation Presidents.
Also
on the wall is a copy of a letter from Robert
Burns to his publisher, Thomson, where he describes
that the letter will be delivered by Mrs Hyslop,
the landlady of the 'Globe Tavern which has for
these many years been my howff'.
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We
continue on our tour through yet another low door
into the kitchen
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