Show LIFE lire IN ix SKYE during the last few weeks I 1 have had bad the opportunity of witnessing something of life as il it passes in the skye wil der nesses and have been struck with its self contain edness not less than with its remoteness A skye family has everything within itself the bare mountains mounta ins yield them mutton of a flavor and delicacy unknown in the south the copses swarm with rabbits and it i a net is set overnight over night at the black island there is abundance of fish to breakfast the farmer grows his own corn barley and potatoes digs his own peats makes his own candles he tans leather spins cloth shaggy as a terriers pile and a hunchbacked backed artist on the place transforms the raw materials into boots or shepherd garments twice every year a huge hamper arrives from glasgow stuffed with all the little luxuries of housekeeping house keeping keepin 0 tea sugar coffee an and d the 11 like ilke 1 e at more frequent intervals comes a ten gal lon ion cask from greenock whose contents can bunni cunningly ly draw the icy fangs ofa northeaster or talethe take the chill out of the clammy mists whai what want they anat a king have bavec and once a week the inverness courier like a window suddenly opened on the roaring sea brings a murmur of the outer world its politics its business its crimes its literature its whole multitudinous and unsleeping life making in g the stillness yet more still in a skye bo thy in an fn Mac Blac Bl magazine agazine |