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your drove, doddies most of them—a big man was with them— — 
none of your kilts though, but a decent pair of breeches—D’ ye — 
know who he may be?’—‘ Hout aye—that might, could, and — 
would be Hughie Morrison—I didna think he could hae peen sae 
weel up. He has made a day on us; but his Argyleshires will 
have wearied shanks. How far was he pehind?’” etc. 
In the same chapter is the following sentence: 
“Ye ken, Highlander, and Lowlander, and Border men are a 
ae man’s bairns when you are over the Scots dyke.” 
How applicable is not the above to my contention as to the 
different Scotch breeds, on their crossing the Scots dyke? There 
was no distinction, all the horned Highlanders were Kyloes, and 
all the polled Lowlanders were Galloway, and Kyloes and Gal- 
loways were all Scots. Doune was in the centre of Caledonia, 
the region from whence class 2 of Mr. Marshall were drawn. 
What influence was it that made doddies and humlies of s0 live 
an interest to Sir Walter? He was a personal friend and guest of 
Mr. Hugh Watson, Keillor, Forfarshire, the celebrated breeder of 
polled Angus cattle. It was undoubtedly from this association 
that Sir Walter got his knowledge of the polled cattle of his native 
country. Nowhere does he mention the term by which they 
became known—“ Galloway”—in connection with cattle at all, | 
though he uses this term in connection with the nags of that regions : 
and no man was better acquainted with the border counties sae 
he. He always uses the terms—to describe his polled ae 
by which were exclusively known the Angus and Buchan pol : 
(doddies and humlies). From this it may be inferred that he st 3 
that these descendants of the original polled cattle of Scotlan i 
were exclusively an appurtenance of the great Caledon 
region.? : 
- Rev. James Headrick, A.M. (first editor of the Hig 
* To prove how early the cattle trade from the north to the south existed, 4 q i 
the following: i üi 
an, 2 
“In those days [about 1560 A.D. ] a drover of the name of Rory, hag ere 
loing a large trade, was in the habit of lodging with Allancuaich [in $ wae 
his way to and from the south markets, after an unusually great “se s na ; 
at Amulrie.” (Legends of the Braes of Mars. By John Grant, G an eee 
_? See a paper by the author, “ Origin of Scotch Breeds of Cattle,” in Age D 
Gazette Almanac, 1887. 
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