134 REMINISCENCES OF 



79th ball, and to London on Tuesday, 21st, to give 

 evidence about a new mineral railway, and hope I 

 shall get back for the show. Those two couple of 

 hounds we missed the snowy Monday killed the fox 

 all right on the beach at Kinghorn. A surfaceman 

 cut off his brush and the drill-sergeant skinned him. 

 They caught him in the sea. 



" Yours ever, 



"Arthur Halkett," 



Season began 18th September, 1875. Hunting 

 days, seventy-eight ; foxes killed, nineteen and a half 

 brace ; blank days, one ; frost, eight. Season ended 

 24th April, 1876. 



A hound show took place at Haddington in July, 

 1876, chiefly got up by Mr. Baird-Hay of Belton. I 

 wrote and asked John Walker, Sir Watkin Wynn's 

 huntsman (who entered me to hounds in 1830), to 

 come and judge for us. The other judges were Mr. 

 Waldron Hill, Master of the Otter Hounds, and 

 Alec Kinloch of Gilmerton. All the Masters of 

 Hounds in Scotland and the North of England 

 supported the show. Lord Eglinton, Ayrshire ; Sir 

 John Marjoribanks, Berwickshire ; Major Browne, 

 Northumberland ; James Hope, Lothians ; George 

 Fen wick, Tynedale ; J. Johnstone, Dumfriesshire ; 

 Colonel Buchanan, Lanark and Renfrew ; and Colonel 

 Anstruther Thomson, Fife, sent hounds. 



In the class for unentered hounds, Tynedale were 

 first, Fife second, and Tynedale third. In that for 

 stallion hounds, Fife were first with " Woodman," 



