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My dog book says until 1909 the Cairn was called a "Short-haired Skye" -- probably from the Isle of Skye, or Scotland mainland. Going back 300 years he is one of the oldest British working terriers. "Cairn" means "a heap of stones," meaning that for hundreds of years Scottish lairds kept a pack of these dogs to rout out fox, badgers, rats, otters from rocky places to keep them from destroying flocks of sheeep and poultry. The dogs would go in the animals' holes, rout them out for their masters to shoot.
Polly Kay (1904-1997) vividly and with humor describes her life in Richland Center, Wisconsin, in excerpts from letters to her son Skip written after 1949, including her 5 last years in an old folks' home.
About Me
- Polly
- A lifelong Wisconsinite, Carolyn Parsons (1904-1997)got a B.A. in English at Ripon College, taught high school, and in 1930 married Lorin L. Kay, a lawyer first in Milwaukee and from 1938 on in Richland Center (he died in 1970). Their children: Mary Margaret and Richard/Skip, editor of this blog.
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