Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-11-13

Scotland for the purpose. Most of them
are married, and have large families. Their
houses are scattered over the farms from
fifteen to twenty miles apart. They are
usually built near a little inlet. where the
company's boat can bring their supplies,
and near a peat bed. The proprietor pays
each shepherd from s25 to $50 a month and
furnishes his meat and fuel. The meat is
mutton, which he can take from the flock,
and the fuel is peat. which he must dig
out himself. In addition to this he has a
garden patch. and with mutton and vegeta-
bles he does very we'll. His flour and other
things he must buy. His home is a little
cottage of two rooms and a lean-to rooted
with corrugated iron. one room serves as
a kitchen and living room and in the other
the family sleeps. II there Is an overflow
or a guest the loft or attic is also used as
a bedroom. The cooking is done in n Curl
Gus, oven-like pot. which is shelved under a
CRATE set in the stone wall of a chimney
or fireplace. The fuel is peat and the hot
ashes fall down upon the pot and around it.
| The pot Is tightly closed at the top and IL
serves for boiling. baking and stewing. The
shepherd has mutton for a steady diet. He
has mutton chops for breakfast. roast NUT
ton for dinner. and a slice of cold mutton
for supper or lunch. The shepherds seldom
leave their farms and the women almost
never. i heard of one woman who has not
| been to town for eighteen years. Her last
visit was when she came 10 Port Stanley
to be married. Think of living away out
on the dreariest moorlanc. under the drear-
lest sky. in a two-roomed cottage, with no
neighbor within fifteen miles and of COM
ing into tow only once in eighteen years.
Travelling SchooImasters.
You would think the children brought up
under such conditions would be wild and
uneducated. They are not. They are as
intelligent and weil-mannered children as
| YOU would find in any country community.
! They have a peculiar institution In the
/ FalkIands known as the travelling school
master. He Is paid by the government, re-
| ceIving about 800 n year. to go from one
| shepherd family 10 another and teach the
| children. The time allotted to each family
is a fortnight. and II three families can
bring their children together they thus get
six weeks of school. The schoolmaster
| lives two weeks with each family. and at
the end of the time, having laid out a
course of home study for the children. Is
sent on horseback by the shepherd to the
reXt family, which may be living twenty
miles away. In the course of time he gets
back to his old pupils. mi them in
what they have gone over with their pa
rents and sisters. and then takes them as
much further on the road to learning as
his two weeks stay will permit. The bish-
Cd and parSon of Port Stanley. who are
also paid by the government. make a tour
of the island once or twice a year to eN-
anime the children of each family. not only
on their catechism. but on their secular
studies. During q recent tour of the islands
the governor. Sir Grey-Wilson. did the
, same. He tells me he was much surprised
Mt the advancement shown by these little
Scotch children away down here on tho
! lonely moors of the Falklands. These chill