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rally milked for eight or ten days, and the milk 

 mixed with some from the cow ; so that the gude 

 wife can hardly put the same query to you which we 

 have heard in Roxburghshire, after the second or 

 third course " Yow or cow ?" It is a great point to- 

 rn ake the cheese as soon as possible after the milk- 

 ing, and one hundred ewes go to an eight-pound 

 cheese. 



There are no hounds, except the few which are used 

 by the todhunter, who is supported by an assessment 

 on the tacksmen. Mr. Mackinnon of Kylaackan is. 

 fond of good Skye terriers ; and Captain Macdonald 

 of Waternish keeps a regular pack for otters, which 

 abound all over the coast, and make large levies on 

 the Snizort salmon. The mode of hunting would 

 horrify Mr. Waldron Hill or Dr. Grant, those great 

 Scottish representatives of the sport, as they put them 

 out of the cairns with terriers, and then shoot 

 them. 



Many of the so-called Skye terriers are not " pure 

 Skyes," but a cross between that breed and a French 

 poodle, of which two or three specimens swam on 

 shore when a ship was wrecked near the coast. 

 Through them the original, short, wiry-haired dog 

 was changed, in a great measure, into one with a long 

 silky coat, and hence the white, long-haired terrier 

 which was at one period so common in the island. 

 By this cross, the properties of the dog have been 

 quite changed, as he is not a fighter like the pure 

 Skye, and only used for tracking vermin. A friend of 



