Edinburgh, Oct. 8.
'Three Scots fisher lassies from Lossiemouth, after a visit to Wembley, were entertained at No. 10 Downing Street. Miss Reid, the leader of the "crew, Annie Reid, the spoke for an' hour and a half in the House of Lords several years ago on the improvement of conditions of female fish workers. The girls had expressed a wish to see the inside of the Prime Minister's town house, and Miss Ishbel MacDonald, when told of this, invited them to tea; and they had the honour of sitting down to a family tea with the Prime Minister as well as his daughters.
Who are these Scots fisher girls? They come from the fishing villages of the north of Scotland, from the jelachans of Uist, Barra, and Lewis and from the far off isles of Shet-They "gu." the herring for a living, and every season they travel south, many of them as far Yarmouth, to the ports where good catches of fish are reported. Few city girls would care to exchange places with those brawny lassiea, but the feeling is probably mutual, for the healthy freedom of life by the sea, and the fish trough, its hardships notwithstanding, a peals to those hardy girls with Watch them at}
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