. The land of heather . eature of thekitchen was its odor, — and no wonder it had an odor,for there was the cow stable just beyond a thin, shakypartition. On the hearth was a great basket of eggswhich my hostess would presently carry out to agrocers cart that visited the vicinity once a week,selling store wares and picking up small produce inexchange. The woman and her brother were theonly dwellers in the house. They had quite an ex-tended farm, chiefly devoted to sheep-raising, and inspite of the lack of comforts in the house and thedilapidation of the buildings, it would not be sur- An Excur
. The land of heather . eature of thekitchen was its odor, — and no wonder it had an odor,for there was the cow stable just beyond a thin, shakypartition. On the hearth was a great basket of eggswhich my hostess would presently carry out to agrocers cart that visited the vicinity once a week,selling store wares and picking up small produce inexchange. The woman and her brother were theonly dwellers in the house. They had quite an ex-tended farm, chiefly devoted to sheep-raising, and inspite of the lack of comforts in the house and thedilapidation of the buildings, it would not be sur- An Excursion 99 prising if these farm folk had a good bit of moneylaid aside. This visit to the cotters house at Amulree was themost interesting incident of the latter part of my ex-cursion. The experiences of the final day were largelya repetition of those already related, and I have onlyto add that my leisurely travelling, with its variousstops and asides, brought me back to the shoemakerscottage in Drumtochty about Puttin oot the Dung. HISTORIC GROUND
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