. Biggar and the House of Fleming: an account of the Biggar district, archaeological, historical, and biographical. barn, by a door in the gable, and thus the familycould attend to the cows and horses without going out ofdoors. It was nothing uncommon for persons in cot-houses,and even in the town of Biggar, to live under the same roofwith a cow and a horse, and to enter by the same door, theonly division between the quadrupeds and the family beinggenerally a close or box bed. The dung was piled by the sideof the door, or at least in close proximity to the could be more oppose
. Biggar and the House of Fleming: an account of the Biggar district, archaeological, historical, and biographical. barn, by a door in the gable, and thus the familycould attend to the cows and horses without going out ofdoors. It was nothing uncommon for persons in cot-houses,and even in the town of Biggar, to live under the same roofwith a cow and a horse, and to enter by the same door, theonly division between the quadrupeds and the family beinggenerally a close or box bed. The dung was piled by the sideof the door, or at least in close proximity to the could be more opposed to the sanitary arrrangementsnow in vogue than this state of things, and yet the inmateswere generally hale and healthy, and lived to a goodly oldage. The farmer himself took a share in all the hard labour ofthe farm, ploughing, sowing, hoeing, reaping, stacking, thrash-ing, &c, and in fact, set an example of industry which theother members were expected to follow. He sat at the sameboard with the other inmates of his household, and partook ofthe same fare, which generally consisted of parritch or brose. 324 BIGGAR AND THE HOUSE OF FLEMING. for breakfast, broth, butcher meat, and bread for dinner, andparritch or sowens for supper. The gudewife, with her maidsand grown up daughters, besides attending to the dairy, spenta considerable portion of each day in carding and spinning. In preparing wool to make a veryfine worsted thread, a comb of theconstructiorl represented in the ac-companying woodcut was has long been out of use, and aspecimen of it is now rarely to bemet ancient implements of spinning were the distaff, thespindle, and whorle. These implements, which were remark-ably simple, had been in use from the earliest periods of whichwe have any record. They are mentioned by Homer, Herodo-tus, and indeed by almost all the ancient classic authors; andSolomon declares that a virtuous woman seeketh wool andflax, and worketh willingly with her hands; she la
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