DescriptionTirling pin, Royal Mile - geograph.org.uk - 1538640.jpg
English: Tirling pin, Royal Mile The tirling pin was a primitive ancestor of the door-bell and a cousin of the door-knocker. It was scraped up and down to make a rattling sound that would announce a visitor's presence. This one is on the door of Cannonball House on Castlehill. Alas, the word 'tirling' has disappeared as no-one has any use for it any more. The original 'Wee Willie Winkie' poem by William Miller may be its final resting-place (provided it is not translated).
Wee Willie Winkie rins through the toun,
Up stairs and doon stairs in his nicht-goun,
Tirlin' at the window, cryin' at the lock,
'Are the weans in their bed, for it's noo ten o'clock?'
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