Bairnsangs - Nursery Rhymes in Scots by Sandy Thomas Ross. Bairnsangs is the result of the collaboration in 1955 of three Ayrshire men. 'Sandy' MacMillan an English teacher at Ayr Academy and Irvine Royal Academy, Thomas Limond who became a noted Town Chamberlain of Ayr, and A. L. (Ross) Taylor, Rector of Cumnock Academy whose other works include a study of "Alice in Wonderland". Together they wrote 'Bairnsangs' under the name of Sandy Thomas Ross.