. The land of heather . Spreading Blankets after the Wash Ill THE WAYS OF THE FARM FOLK. T iHE Drum-tochty farm-ers complaineda good deal of hardtimes, and in thelast few years theirprofits had undoubt-edly been small; yetthey were careful,hardworking men,and the majority ofthem had moneylaid aside. Most ofthe farmhouses stood some distance from the mainroads, at the end of a lane. I naturally expected, whenI followed up one of these lanes, that it would lead meto the front door of the house, but the farm buildingswere not arranged on the American plan. The housesturned their backs on the pubH
. The land of heather . Spreading Blankets after the Wash Ill THE WAYS OF THE FARM FOLK. T iHE Drum-tochty farm-ers complaineda good deal of hardtimes, and in thelast few years theirprofits had undoubt-edly been small; yetthey were careful,hardworking men,and the majority ofthem had moneylaid aside. Most ofthe farmhouses stood some distance from the mainroads, at the end of a lane. I naturally expected, whenI followed up one of these lanes, that it would lead meto the front door of the house, but the farm buildingswere not arranged on the American plan. The housesturned their backs on the pubHc approaches, just asthe mansions of the gentry do, and it was often apuzzle to find the front entrance at all. 56 A Servant Lassie The Ways of the Farm Folk 57 I came to know many of the farmers, and amongthem one called Hillocks/ who was especiallyfriendly, and at whose house I was a frequent was in reality a Mr. Crockett, but Hillocks wasthe name of his farm, and locally that was always histitle. It was the same on the other farms of theglen — Ballandee, Clashiegar, D
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