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Breakfast with family, porridge and milk, and tea and bread afterwards. 

 Dinner with family, bread and milk, or potatoes and milk, or herrings and 

 potatoes, or braxy soup. Wife takes tea and bread. Supper with family, 

 porridge and milk. Health very good. 



Remarks. — This is a fair specimen of a Highland labourer in this district. 

 He buys annually two cwt. of braxy at 5s. per cwt., and 100 herrings occasion- 

 ally at 2s. per 120. In this district many Irish are employed, and each will 

 do twice as much as a Highlander. 



35. Parish of Tarbert (Lochfine). Shepherd. — D. S. Family above ten 

 years, 5 ; below, 2. Takes meals at home. Kent, £3 per annum. Yearly 

 wages, £26 ; wages of family, £29 per annum. Keeps a pig and poultry. 



Breakfast, porridge and milk, and tea with oatcake and butter afterwards ; 

 family, jDorridge and milk. Dinner with family, braxy soup, or potatoes and 

 milk, with sometimes a herring and oatcakes. Supper with family, porridge 

 and milk. Health good. 



36. Parish of Tarbert (Lochfine). Ploughman. — D. M. Family above 

 ten years, none ; below, 3. Takes meals at home. Pent, £2 per annum. 

 Yearly wages, ,£23, 10s. in money, 6h bolls meal, 12 bushels potatoes, and 1 

 pint skimmed milk daily. 



Breakfast with family, tea and oatcakes. Dinner with family, herring and 

 potatoes, or vegetable broth, or potatoes and milk. Supper with family, 

 porridge and milk. Health very good. 



STIRLINGSHIRE. 



37. Parish of Muiravonside. Labourer. — J. D. Family above ten 

 years, 2 ; below, 1. Does not take meals at home. Rent, £2 per annum. 

 Weekly wages, 12s. No cow, pig, or poultry allowed. 



Breakfast, porridge and milk ; family, tea and bread, or porridge and milk. 

 Dinner, broth and potatoes, with a small piece of meat or bacon boiled in the 

 broth, and occasionally herring and potatoes ; of family, the same. Tea, 

 labourer takes none on week-days ; family, tea with bread and butter. 

 Supper, in summer, porridge and milk — in winter, potatoes and milk ; family, 

 none. Health good. 



LINLITHGOWSHIRE. 



38. Parish of Kirkliston. Female Labourers. — C. V., A. B., E. G., 

 P. F., living together. Take meals at home. Rent free, worth £4 per 

 annum. Weekly wages, 7s. each. No cow, pig, or poultry allowed. 



Breakfast, brose, or porridge and treacle. Dinner, cheese and bread and 

 butter, or broth, or porridge. Tea and bread. Supper, porridge and treacle. 

 Health excellent. 



Remarks. — This return is from a bothy. The inmates are chiefly Irish or 

 Highland unmarried girls. They are employed all the year on the land, at 

 Is. 2d. per day when working. Have house free. Victuals in harvest, and 

 coals driven free — a privilege rarely required, fire being kept up by pilfered 

 paling stobs and railing, &c. General moral conduct good ; but occasional 

 quarrels amongst themselves lead to petty warfare and blows. Diet in 

 harvest good, being porridge and milk, beer and bread, and porridge and milk 

 to supper. 



39. Parish of Kirkliston. Ploughman. — J. S. Family above ten years, 

 1 ; below, none. Takes meals at home. Rent free. Yearly wages, £34. 

 Keeps a pig. 



Breakfast, porridge and buttermilk ; wife, tea and bread ; child, bread and 

 milk. Dinner, broth and beef; child, milk and bread. Tea and bread and 

 butter with family. Supper with family, porridge and milk. Health good. 



