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XXXV 



(PVednesdai/, 2 o'clock.) 



Tenants planting — winter food for cows — potatoes eaten 

 by the swine — Wight and brewing — feeding of fat 

 oxen and Highland store cattle — foggage for the 

 sheep — quarries may be wrought in spring or summer 

 — ferns for hot-beds — pigeons — trespassers — Bell sent 

 in poor apples — ^just leaving for London, . .98-101 



XXXVI 



(^No date : written at the Hall.) 



Work at the coal-pits — daily report of Bell's doings to be 

 sent by Miles to the Hall — tenant asking for trees — 

 supervise planting — report on the pigeon-house — a 

 laird to send for oak saplings^ . . .101-102 



INDEX ....... 103 



FRONTISPIECE :— 



Portrait of John Cockburn of Ormistoun from a 

 portrait in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. 



