98 BRITISH QUADRUPEDS. 



changing of their residence so often as they did in sum- 

 mer, from one bothy (booth) or glen to another," she re- 

 marks, " gave a romantic peculiarity to their turn of 

 thought and language. Their manner of life, in fact, 

 wanted nothing but the shades of palm, the olives, the 

 vines, and the fervid sun of the East, to resemble the pa- 

 triarchal one. Yet, as they must carry their beds, food, 

 and utensils, the housewife who furnishes and divides 

 these matters, has enough to do, when her shepherd is 

 in one glen, and her dairy-maid in another, with her 

 milk cattle. Not to mention some of the children, who 

 are marched off to the glen, as a discipline, to inure 

 them early to hardiness and simplicity of life. 



" As I find myself," continues the same writer, " in 

 the humour of journalizing and particularizing, I shall, 

 between fancy and memory, sketch out the diary of one 

 July Monday. I mention Monday, being the day that 

 all dwellers in the glens come down for the supplies. 

 Then, at four o'clock, Donald arrives with a horse 

 loaded with butter, cheese, and milk. The former 

 I must weigh instantly. He only asks an additional 

 blanket for the children, a covering for himself, two 

 milk-tubs, a cog, and another spoon, because little Peter 

 threw one of the set into the burn ; two stone of meal, 

 a quart of salt, and two pounds of flax for the spinners, 



