Potatoes at twelve o'clock--seldom "brose" nowadays--are the staple dinner dish, and the tinned meats have become very popular.

There are bothies where each man makes his own food; but of course the more satisfactory plan is for them to club together.

Sometimes they get their food in the farm-kitchen; but this is only when there are few of them and the farmer and his family do not think it beneath them to dine with the men.

Broth, too, may be made in the kitchen and sent down to the bothy.

At harvest-time the workers take their food in the fields, when great quantities of milk are provided.