DALGIG TO AYR. 



" Through Camwath he bounded fast. 

 By Douglas ]Mill rode he ; 

 But weary, weary was the steed 

 AVheu he passed Ochiltree." 



Scott. 



Ayr — Cow Districts — Rearing, and Points of Ayrshire Cows — Colours — 

 Vessel — Beef — Milking — Show Dodges — Ayr Milking Prize — Bowers 

 Cheese-making — Dunlop and Cheddar — Mrs. Jane Dunlop — English 

 Piu'chasers of Ayrshires. 



THAAV had followed frost-, to the dire confusion of 

 the curling interest, and then a frost had set in 

 again. There was nothing for it but to get np in the 

 dark at 5 a.m., to encounter the blast furnaces once 

 more, and skate pretty nearly all the way on horse- 

 back between Dalgig and Ayr. This cheese capitol 

 of Scotland looks quite a pleasant city of the plain, 

 with its steeples, cupolas, and towers. The Wallace 

 Memorial " contrives a double debt to pay," and 

 has a dram shop below, and in the hostel, where 

 Tam O'Shanter met Souter Johnnie, the green- 

 moulded thatch has not yielded to slate. Our fur- 

 ther Burns' homage consisted not only in walking 

 by the sea-side, and home by the monument, but 

 took the more practical turn at night, of looking hiia. 



