. The land of heather . emerriment frequently continued all night. Patriotismand a martial sentiment were cultivated, and the par-ticipants acquired much useful information. But atlength the ministers began to oppose the caly on theground that there was too strong a tendency to tellprofane stories, and now the caly is wholly extinct. Of the future of the crofters I cannot say from whatI saw and heard of them that it appears to hold muchbrightness. Nature itself in that remote and barrennorthern island is against them ; yet the law has donesomething of late in alleviating their condition, andma
. The land of heather . emerriment frequently continued all night. Patriotismand a martial sentiment were cultivated, and the par-ticipants acquired much useful information. But atlength the ministers began to oppose the caly on theground that there was too strong a tendency to tellprofane stories, and now the caly is wholly extinct. Of the future of the crofters I cannot say from whatI saw and heard of them that it appears to hold muchbrightness. Nature itself in that remote and barrennorthern island is against them ; yet the law has donesomething of late in alleviating their condition, andmay do more. Perhaps the most hopeful sign Is the The Crofters of Skye 209 tendency shown to improve their homes. They areabandoning their primeval fireplaces, and buildingchimneys, and some of the more aspiring have plas-tered their house-walls and replaced with slate theroofs of mouldering thatch. This has awakened aspirit of emulation, and many others will follow theexample set them as soon as they can gather A Highland Cow XI A COUNTRY SCHOOL I HAD wandered into a high-land glen girdled about withwild heather-clad ridges. Inthe depths of the valley a littleriver looped its way along, help-ing to make fertile the borderingfarm lands, and the heart of theglen with its emerald meadowsand the silvery ghnt of the streamwas pleasant to look on ; but theregion, as a whole, was too tree-less to attract, while the brown,undulating hills were so sombre asto be almost forbidding. It is truethe district was not without a cer-tain rude kind of beauty, and thehills had about them a good dealof elemental grandeur, yet to live the year through intheir big, barren presence I fancied must be soberingand oppressive, 2IO
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