122 REMINISCENCES OF 



Findlay and Mackie (I forget the name of the other), 

 out of a hole on the hill behind Kinneston Craigs, 

 in the parish of Portmoak, county of Kinross, about 

 two miles outside of * the County of Fife ' but in ' the 

 Fife country'. They were sent addressed from 

 * Mawcarse Station,' in Kinross-shire, within about the 

 same distance of the 'county of Fife'. I did not 

 think it necessary to mention all these details in my 

 former letter. He says, ' That he knows quite as 

 much about Scotland as I can tell him *. He there- 

 fore knows that Forfarshire is regularly hunted by 

 a pack of foxhounds four days a week, and as he 

 advertised for foxes in 'the paper published in 

 Dundee,' I have no doubt that the Master of the 

 Forfarshire Hounds feels quite as grateful to him 

 as I do, and although he has not asked for my 

 advice I venture to repeat my suggestion that he 

 should not repeat his advertisement in any country 

 that is regularly hunted. 



" Yours truly, 

 " J. Anstruther Thomson, 



" Master of Fife Foxhounds. 

 " Charleton, Colinsburgh, Fife." 



The first time I hunted on the Lomond Hills, 

 in 1873, I said to Lewis Grant, the policeman, who 

 was a keen foxhunter, " There are not so many 

 foxes on the hill as there were last season". "Ah, 

 but the Comal ^ was a fine Gaelic scholar." Most of 

 the shepherds, being Highlanders, were more keen 

 to preserve foxes for him. 



' Col. Gardyne. 



