Dairying in the Olden Days 97 



have no doubt either but that the incident closed 

 by my mother saying, "Well, what's the use of 

 crying over spilt milk." You see, she was Scotch 

 and those folk nearly all have a way of consoling 

 themselves and others by quoting a ''saying" or a 

 text, and, it may be added, that's the finest phil- 

 osophy to be found in all the wide world. 



