200 REMINISCENCES OF 



end of England to the other, and only saw one fox 

 killed. 



1 8th April, 1884. — Crossed to Belfast with Pat 

 Carnegy ; on by train to Dublin. Pat stayed with 

 Captain Reid. I stayed in Royal Barracks with 

 Tyvie Burn. I left Royal Barracks in 1847, ^^^ 

 they were just in the same state then as now, out of 

 repair and dirty. Colonel Malet was in command of 

 1 8th Hussars. We had two rooms; I had one and 

 Burn and McCallan, his brother-in-law, the other. 

 Randolph Wemyss went with us to the kennels at 

 Kells to see the Meath Hounds ; Jack Press, hunts- 

 man. 



Punchestown Races. — Jim Babington on " Soldier 

 Bill " won the military race. Cosmo Little got a 

 bad cropper. 



23rd. — Lunch at Viceregal Lodge. Walked in 

 the garden and had a long chat with Spencer. 



24th. — Crossed to Holyhead and slept at Crewe. 

 Home next day. 



August 1884. — The Duke of Portland always 

 took four pairs of harness horses to Langwell for 

 the shooting season. Chandy Pole suggested that 

 instead of sending them by train they should 

 drive them, and asked me to come with them. I 

 went, and met him in Perth at Salutation Inn. He 

 sent his brake harness and one man there by train. 

 Another came with the horses', a capital chap named 

 Richmond, and Joe Turner, the Duke's factor at 

 Kilmarnock, made all the arrangements. 



The party was Jack Campbell and his wife, 



