I2 . OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Canongate.
A little gableended house now occupies the
site of the former, and was long known as the
dwelling of a very different personage, a Lucky
Spence, of unenviable notoriety, whose "Last
dow on the ground floor, a cavity was found in
the solid wall, containing the skeleton of a child,
with some remains of fine linen cloth in which it
had been wrapped. Our authority,') says Wilson,
NISBET OF DIRLETON'S HOUSE.
Advice 'I figures somewhat coarsely in the poems
of Allan Ramsay.
About 1833 a discovery was made, during some
alterations in this house, which was deemed illustrative
of the desperate character of its seventeenthcentury
occupant. '( In breaking out a new Win-
'' a worthy shoemaker, who had occupied the house
for forty-eight years, was present when the discovery
was made, and described very graphically
the amazement and horror of the workman, who
threw away his crowbar, and was with difficulty
, persuaded to resume his operations."
