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Bread. 



260. Tungland. — The whisk used for brushing the dry meal off the 

 cakes is called ' the sooper,' and is made of the wing-feathers of domestic 

 fowls. 



261. Kirhnaiden. — In rolling out a cake, if a hole broke open in it, 

 it is augured that strangers will eat of it. 



262. 2finnigaff. — If the cake breaks in the rolling out, it is an omen 

 that sti-angers will turn up to have a share in eating ' the bakan.' 



263. — In baking a cake, if the ' crown of the farle ' breaks, it indicates 

 that strangers will eat of that bread. 



264. Galloivay generally. — The cake is commonly cut into three ' farles.' 



265. Kirhnaiden. — To find out whether the cake is sufficiently 'tired,' 

 it is usual to lift the ' crosn o' the farle.' If it breaks when lifted, it is 

 taken as an omen that the death of a near i-elative is at hand. 



266. When the crown of the 'farle' breaks during the course of 

 baking, the deatli of a friend will be heard of before the ' farle ' is eaten. 



267. Bahnadellan, Rerrick, Laurieston, Dairy. — If the crown of the 

 ' farle ' breaks in the course of baking, it is regarded as a portent of a 

 death at no distant period. 



268. Tungland. — If the crown of the ' farle ' breaks when taken off 

 the 'girdle,' a death will soon be lieard of. 



269. Dairy. — -When the ' girdle ' is taken off the fire and laid on the 

 floor after baking is finished, and before being laid aside, a scone or 

 ' farle ' is left on it to keep off" ill-luck. 



270. Minnigqf.— The hollow side of the ' farle ' is placed uppermost. 



271. Kirhnaiden. — It is considered by some to savour of bad ' farle ^ 

 to ' nip the croon o' the farle ' in eating it, i.e., to begin to eat tiie manner 

 from the top or crown. 



272. Minnigaff. — By many it is accounted bad manners to break oft' 

 the crown of the ' farle ' first when one begins to eat it. 



273. Rerrick. — It is accounted unlucky to begin to eat from the 

 ' croon o' the farle.' 



274. Laurieston. — Said an old woman to me : 'A " melder bannock " 

 was made for the wee yins.' 



275. — A kind of bannocks, called ' treacle bannocks,' used to be made 

 for use about the New Year. They were composed of oatmeal with, 

 treacle added. Sometimes carraway seeds were added. 



Mills. 



276. Kells. — It is unlucky to pull down a meal mill. 



277. My informant's uncle was a miller. He was put out of his mill 

 by a family of Maxwell. J. McQueen, a neighbour, said that ' they widd 

 a' gang like braxy sheep. Nae boddie widd doe ony guid that knockit 

 doon a mortart (moultert) mill.' The family afterwards went to ruin. 

 The meal- mill was turned into a saw-mill. 



278. ' They never thrive that middle wi' kirk or mill.' 



279. There was no milling on New Year's Day, ' except when thrang.' 



Trades. 



280. Bahnaghie. — When an apprentice to the shoemaking trade ' sat 

 doon,' ' he paid his fittan ' — i.e., he gave a quantity of whisky to the 

 tradesmen in the shop. 



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