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fox go over Kinghorn Links, so away we posted, 

 and never could hit on a line, nor did we see any 

 more of these hounds. They all came home last 

 night but ' Reginald '. 



" Yours ever, 



" Arthur Halkett," 



" PlTFIRRANE, 



" i^th March, 1876. 



" My Dear Thomson, — 



*' I hope I shall be able to come to the 

 show this time, especially as there is to be such 

 good company. I think I must enter a hunter or 

 a jumper, and we shall send three pups and two 

 terriers. 



" I found Willy Adam at home on Friday. We 

 drew all his woods without finding ; deep snow ; and 

 your little brown mare I was riding dropped a hind 

 leg in a hole and got staked high up inside the thigh 

 and cut some arteries. She bled like a pig, and I 

 could not get any one to come. The more I blew 

 my horn for help the more delighted Jack became, 

 and kept holloaing on the hounds. I had to leave 

 her at Blair Adam and have sent for Gray from 

 Edinburgh. It is a lockjaw sort of place. 



"We went south and found near the Hill of 

 Beath, and ran a tremendous pace past Lumphinnans 

 and Lochore up to Constable's, where he turned sharp 

 south again, and then by Navity over Benarty to the 

 rocks above Tods. Found a fresh one, and ran till 

 dark, and didn't get home till 9.30. 



"I go Thursday to Willy Wauchope's for the 



