The Leddy's Ain presents little difficulty to the understanding even of the uninitiated. It is the Lady's Own, a compliment, or a toast, it you will, to The Ladies.

The approach to the green is specially attractive and is known as "her winning way." On the one hand the fairway is bordered by gently rising slopes, while on the other lies a sweeping expanse of moorland where the wild fowl nest. Farm wives at the weekly markets used to be heard addressing all passing possible customers with "taste my butter, my leddy," and among nursery rhymes in the North none is more popular than -

This is the way the Leddys ride, Jimp an' sma', jimp an' sma',

This is the way the Cadgers ride, Creels an' a', creels an' a".

Then we have the spirit of the lowland lass indicated in Allan Ramsay's "The Highland Laddie ": -

A painted room, a silken bed

May please a Lawland Laird and Leddy,

But I can kiss and be as glad

Behind a bush in's Highland plaidie.

And we have a combination of "Leddy" and "ain" in Lady Nairne's beautiful song "The Auld Hoose" -

Oh ! the auld laird, the auld laird,

Sae canty kind and crouse, How mony did he welcome

To his ain wee dear auld hoose, An' the leddy too sae genty,

There shelter'd Scotland's heir, An' dipt a lock wi' her ain han'

Frae his lang yellow hair.

The attractiveness of The Leddy's Ain is beyond question, and no finer compliment could have been paid to the fair sex than the choice of this charming expanse as a gallant tribute to them. The christening was indeed a happy thought which all sportsmen will appreciate.