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From Rosies Journal. — " I and Kitty Babington 



started with ' Beauty ' to go to Gibliston. When 



we got to Balcarres we heard some ' holloaing ' on 



and hounds running. I got on the pony and left 



Kitty and joined the chase. It was scrumptious. 



We ran from Balcarres all along the Double dykes, 



turned to the left and then down to the little lane to 



Balcaskie, and hearing ' who- whoop ' galloped on 



to the road again, and found they had killed him. 



It was quite dark, and we did not get home till seven 



o'clock. I got the brush. We left some hounds on 



the rock at Balcarres Craig. Next morning about 



ten o'clock papa and I walked to Balcarres to try 



and get down the hounds. They were all together 



on a ledge — 'Marksman,' 'Harriet,' 'Purity' and 



' Rambler '. We had taken a halter and a bag of 



bread, so we ' clomb ' the mount for some way and 



then papa went on to them, while I stood on a big 



ledge about six or eight feet lower down. Papa 



then caught ' Purity ' and tied the halter round her 



neck and slung her down as far as the halter would 



reach, then I caught her and lifted her on to her legs, 



gave her some bread and let her go ; and so on with 



all of them. We got them down beautifully before 



the other people (with ropes, pulleys, etc.) came up. 



They were perfectly ravenous, having had nothing 



to eat for fifty-two hours. We fed them as soon as 



we got them here, and Fred came down soon after 



and took them back to the kennels." 



1878. — One day cub-hunting at Durie, Captain 



Christie rode close after me all the morning. I got 



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