Blink Bonnie is the alliterative term for a glimpse of beauty. To the Scot it has a deeper meaning, a meaniny so haunting and yet so elusive that nothing else but Blink

Bonnie can give it form. It sums up tor us in this case the enchantment of a magnificent expanse of open countrv.

a vista of mountain, glen, loch and moor Little Scotland, it you care to think of it so, a fine miniature on which Nature has lavished especial care. The Scot abroad longs for "a blink o' his ain countne " or "a bonnie blythe blink of his ain fireside," a longing that epitomises his ideal of sweet ontentment.

O why left I my hame,

Why did I cross the deep, O why left I the land

Where my forefathers sleep: I sigh tor Scotia's shore.

And I traze across the sea. But I carina' yet a blink

O' my ain countne.

We have also to remember the kindred lonuini! in the heart ot the Scot for "a blink o' the bonnie black e'e: that is the love-light in the eves of the girl of his heart.

In "Whistle, and I'll come to you mv lad " Burn- invites a smiling glance - the " glad eye " as we might say to-day - in the naive suggestion -