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additionof liver and lights." *' Don't regard what you have heard of 

 it " resumed the laird; *' we will have one at dinner to-day." We had 

 one and I tasted it ; but I think what was said of the Spartan broth may 

 be said of the haggess. To like the one, a man should be dipped in the 

 Eurotas, and to like the other, he should be born in Scotland. That is 

 to say, he should be used to it from infancy. " Take the dish to 

 Mr. A.," said Mr. Baillie, seeing T did not eat what I had on my plate; 

 "■ perhaps he will like it better when he sees it." But it is not every 

 thing that will stand close inspection, nor would this. 



At two o'clock the whole party — male and female— walked to view, 

 what we call in the South, the Homestead, or the Barton as it is termed 

 in the North; in plainer English, the place where all farming operations 

 are performed, save those carried on in the fields, and to which all pro- 

 duce is brought home, and secured — distant about a mile from the 

 mansion house. The amount of live and dead stock here, showed the 

 owner to be a farmer upon a very extensive scale ; but the chief object 

 of attraction was a water-wheel of a very large diameter, which sets 

 agoing a corn mill, with three pair of stones, a bone-crushing mill, and 

 a saw mill. The latter T had never before seen at work ; but from the 

 rapidity with which it cuts every description of wood into any substance 

 that may be required, and, especially, rails for fences, such an engine 

 should be erected upon every large estate which will admit of its being 

 driven by water. 



The bone-mill is likewise a most valuable adjunct in countries where 

 the material can be conveniently found. Mr. Baillie's is in great part 

 supplied by the gypsies of Yeth-holm, (muggers, as they are called in 

 this part of Scotland,) who collect the bones from the various kennels. 



