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 Children continue with the fosterer perhaps six years, and cannot, where this is the practice, be considered as burdensome. The fosterer, if he gives four cows, receives likewise four, and has, while the child continues with him, grass for eight without rent, with half the calves, and all the milk, for which he pays only four cows when he dismisses his, for that is the name for a foster child.

Fosterage is, I believe, sometimes performed upon more liberal terms. Our friend, the young Laird of, was fostered by of  then lived a tenant to Sir  in the Isle of ; and therefore , whether he sent him cattle or not, could grant him no land. The, however, at his return, brought back a considerable number of , and of the friendship so formed there have been good effects. When raised his