350 FIELD AND FERN. 



" What bliss and life can autumn yield, 

 If gloom, and showers, and storms prevail ; 

 And Ceres flies the naked field, 

 And fruits, and flowers, and Phoebus fail ?" 



The Wood of Caledon Bulls The Duke of Montrose's Herd Sail to 

 Skye Products of Portree Ride to Duntulm Cattle and Sheep in 

 Skye Skye Terriers A Pig Hunt Symptoms of Falkirk The Pol- 

 talloch Herd. 



HUTUMN drew on, and we left for a time the great 

 * Wood of Caledon, It ran originally " fra Strire- 

 ling (Stirling) throw Menteith and Stratherne to 

 Atholl and Loehquabir," and was inhabited by 

 gritrit bullis with crisp and curland mane, with 

 sich hatrent aganis ye societe and company of 

 men." 



Only a few of these "bullis" areleft near Hamilton. 

 They are almost universally white, with black ears, 

 muzzles, and feet (points in which the Chillingham 

 are red), and generally horned. If they come polled, 

 it is always considered a mark of bad blood. They 

 are of good medium size, and compact in form. One 

 of the patriarchs of the herd, who was shot about five 

 years since, measured two feet from the frontlet to 

 the tip of the nose, or the same as the span between 



