Scottish Gardens; Being a Representative Selection of Different Types, Old And New
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Entering the " policies " of Fyvie at the lodge gate, a delightful woodland w^alk leads across the little river, under the walls of the castle and out along the margin of a lake till we reach the open country again. Below us on the right is the bridge of Sleugh where Annie of Tifty MilP parted for ever with her lover — a tragedy commemorated in a ballad which became dearer, perhaps, than any other to Aberdeen- shire people. It tells how pretty Agnes, daughter ' Her baptismal name was Agnes, but... she always appears as Nannie or Annie in the various versions of the ballad. 131 SCOTTISH GARDENS of the wealthy miller of Tifty, lost her heart to a handsome trumpeter in the suite of the Lord of Fy vie. " At Fyvie's yett there grows a flower, It grows baith braid and bonnie ; There's a daisy in the midst o' it, And they call it Andrew Lammie." No backward lover was the said daisy, for the maiden tells us how — " The first time me and my love met Was in the woods o' Fyvie, He kissed my lips five thousand times And aye he ca'd me bonnie." The miller, whose name does not appear in the poem, but who is known to have borne the homely one of Smith, took a very firm line with his daughter from the first.
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