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in their full foliage and the hard little clusters
of buds just discernible bespeak a snowy
mantle a few weeks hence. The leaves on
the birches are not yet so thick that they
conceal the silver branches and purple twigs
beneath them, while the beeches have hardly
yet shed their brown leaf covers. A red tint of
soil still shows through the braird of the
corn distinguishing the arable land from the green
meadows that divide it. The loch in front
holds trout and in half an hour after tea
last night floating about with J. & M. in
the boat I landed two, the largest about
3/4 lb. [pound]. Tomorrow work commences.

8th. May 1911
Kirkcowan church
A drizzling wet morning following
a wet night. Set off for Kirkcowan on bicycle.
At the lower end of the village within the grave-
-yard are the remains of the old church consisting
solely of the E. [East] gable overgrown with ivy. There
is a doorway through it with a lintelled window
above. There do not appear to be any grave
stones of interest of date prior to 1707.

[Margin] Omit

In the S. [South] wall of the graveyard is built a
memorial slab marking the burial place
of the Gordons of Craigdee. Between an hour
glass and a skull is a shield bearing arms

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