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selected her as the most perfect female type of the 

 breed for the gallery of the Highland Society, and 

 he has done full justice to this buxom mountain 

 mother with the yellow hair and the three white legs. 

 Her daughter has taken prizes as well, but she 

 has bred, so far, nothing but bulls, and between 

 them they made up quite a red and yellow clan 

 M'Laren, of which any man might be proud. 



Deanstown is not far from the rail between Cal- 

 lander and Dunblane. Well nigh thirty years before, 

 we had been there, when Mr. Smith was in the flush 

 of success with his subsoil plough ; but, boylike, we 

 attended more to his luncheon than his lectures, and 

 we remember little beyond than his bustling ways, 

 his sturdy, little figure, and the glass frames in the 

 flower-garden, which acted as skylights to the work- 

 shops below. This was in '35 ; and three- and-t wen ty 

 years before that he had brought out his reaping 

 machine. The first was too weighty, and the second 

 broke part of its wheel- work by a sudden jolt in a 

 hollow during the trial. Hence he did not win the 

 500 given by the Dalkeith Farmers' Club, but was 

 consoled with a tenth of that sum for " meritorious 

 endeavours.'' The Highland Society awarded him. 

 a plate for it, and so did the Emperor of Russia. Eartfe 

 and water were alike his care. Draining and 

 subsoil ploughs will always be associated with 

 his name; he devised a salmon ladder with a 

 30-feet ascent ; and then, with true cosmopolitaa 

 fervour, he invented and patented a dip for sheep. 



