The author went with Scotch friends to Ireland and partook of Irish Short Bread that might have been Scotch Short Bread, with the exception of nuts, brown sugar and ginger. It was equally rich, equally delicious. But the Scotchman likes his short bread free from salt and flavor ing.

Both Irishman and Scotchman want strong black tea, freshly brewed and served with milk, just as the Englishman serves his tea with milk.

It is one of the most restful, most satisfying experiences of travel in the British Isles, to sit by a window in a quaint old tavern in Ireland and look out upon countrysides which have been unspoiled by the passing years.

Ireland is changing with the world changes that a modern age is effecting but there are still sights which are typically of the long ago. One may see a primitive two-wheeled cart drawn by a shaggy little donkey. The donkey is driven by a smiling-faced, blue-eyed, black-haired girl who is return ing home with her cart load of empty milk cans. And if one is particularly fortunate, far down the road donkeys are jogging along, bearing their loads of peat fuel in crude baskets strapped across their backs.