. The land of heather . ues to thelast halfpenny. Yet if anything took his fancy, hethought nothing of paying a thousand pounds for said the landlord had a fine mansion in London,and that this one in Mull was no more than a hen-house to that. In the Kilpatrick Farm kitchen, the floor was offlat stones, all marked in a curious scroll-like patternthat covered them with a network of curling marking was renewed regularly every Fridayby the woman, who would get down on her kneesand scratch the pattern in with a sharp piece of soap-stone. The decorative ornamentation of the floor
. The land of heather . ues to thelast halfpenny. Yet if anything took his fancy, hethought nothing of paying a thousand pounds for said the landlord had a fine mansion in London,and that this one in Mull was no more than a hen-house to that. In the Kilpatrick Farm kitchen, the floor was offlat stones, all marked in a curious scroll-like patternthat covered them with a network of curling marking was renewed regularly every Fridayby the woman, who would get down on her kneesand scratch the pattern in with a sharp piece of soap-stone. The decorative ornamentation of the floor wasof course not very permanent, yet it lasted fairly distinctover Sunday. At one side of the room hung a wag atthe wa clock, with its weights and pendulum exposed,and near by stood a dresser full of old-time pewter andcrockery. The woman said she would show me a bagof seaweed she had in the pantry — seaweed of a sortthey used a great deal in making puddings. But sheforgot that in the pantry she had prisoned a hen and. A Kitchen Corner The Isle of Mull i8i twenty chickens. This family came running out whenthe door was opened, and the woman drove them onthrough the kitchen and scullery into the yard. Theseaweed proved to be Iceland moss. They pulled iton the shore in summer at low water, brought it to thehouse in creels, and spread it on the grass for about amonth to bleach and dry. They always gatheredenough so that they could put away a bushel-bag fullof the shrunken product for the years use. They had to depend very much on themselves forthe food they ate. No grocers or bakers cart evervisited them, and no jflesher with dead meat. Toa considerable extent the sea was their larder. Thestalwart brothers often went fishing of an evening, andthey would easily catch a hundred apiece, and some-times between them brought home half a part of the catch fresh, a part they saltedfor winter, and a part they fed to the pigs. They didnot think much of fish as a food fo
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