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Updated: June 17, 2025
These ruinous shielings, that hardly keep out wind or weather, are deplorable homes for young or aged people, and poor shelters for the hardworking men and women who cultivate the fields in which they stand.
We passed many miles this day without seeing a house, but only little summer-huts, called shielings. Evan Campbell, servant to Mr. Murchison, factor to the Laird of Macleod in Glenelg, ran along with us to-day. He was a very obliging fellow. At Auchnasheal, we sat down on a green turf seat at the end of a house; they brought us out two wooden dishes of milk, which we tasted.
In the more settled parts of the land, such a summons as had brought them from their rude shielings among the hills or beside the bogs, would have passed for a dark jest.
Arriving at midnight in a small shieling belonging to Macdonald of Milton, 'by good fortune, as O'Neal puts it, 'we met with Miss Flora Macdonald, whom I formerly knew. It is a little difficult to believe that young ladies of Miss Flora's discretion were in the habit of frequenting lonely shielings far from their homes at midnight, at a time when the whole country was infested with soldiers.
"The men were not insolent?" he asked, for he knew the manners and customs of his Majesty's press in lonely shielings. "I only saw the officers Captain Laurence and a naval lieutenant besides that smooth rascal McClure from Stonykirk!" Even then Patsy hardly dared tell her father how unconventionally she had been clad, but she plucked up heart and went through with it.
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