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time of it ! Ten miles at this rate means ten 

 hours ; it will be cool enough then ! 



A few such diversions to the water-side, with the 

 needful slipping down and climbing up steep 

 banks, and leaping from boulder to boulder to get 

 at some likely pool, or climbing such awkward 

 fences as only crofters know how to put up and 

 black-faced sheep to get over, especially when the 

 encouragement is of the slightest, prove enough. 

 And the face is turned a little more steadily 

 toward the goal. 



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Next to the daisy, the dandelion is the most 

 familiar of plants. The one is gathered by the 

 Lowland girls for stringing into bracelets, the other 

 by the boys for feeding their rabbits. 



And the dandelion is being replaced by the 

 hawkweeds. Nine out of ten of our hawkweeds 

 many of which have a beauty of their own are 

 mountain forms, the majority belonging to the 

 Scottish mountains. A few outliers come down to 

 the glen, and a few intermediate species connect 

 these with the flowers of the plain. 



Crossing freely from the glen to the lowlands 

 is the pale yellow mouse-eared hawkweed. It 

 just enters within the domain of the dandelion, 

 and in certain neutral places the two grow side 



