SHOEMAKING AND FARMING.
In these days of mass production of almost everything, it is interesting to learn that the art of making bools and shoes by hand has not ceased to exist in Scotland, especially in the country districts.
At Balquhidder, in the Rob Roy country, the shoemaker is also a crofter. He finds the occupation of shoemaking and farming go well together. Indeed, he is so busy with other people's boots that ho ‘like the children mentioned in an old Scottish proverb —“The shoemaker's bairns are aye ill-shod ? ' —for he himself wears clogs.
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Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 277, 28 February 1929, Page 6
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94SHOEMAKING AND FARMING. Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 277, 28 February 1929, Page 6
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