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1 6th September. — Conservative meeting in the 

 Corn Exchange, Edinburgh. After the meeting I 

 went home with Bill Blackwood to Gogar, Next 

 morning the hounds met at Hopetoun. Bill Black- 

 wood mounted me, and Hopetoun mounted the 

 others. They killed a cub, and Waterford said 

 that he had never been blooded, I said, " We 

 will do it now," but he carefully kept out of my 

 way. Harry Chaplin came out later, his trousers 

 wrinkled up to his knees, and he looked very un- 

 comfortable. He told me that if I had not spoken 

 to him at Doncaster he would not have come. 



ist June, 1885. — I started with Kit and Rosie 

 to go to Wiesbaden. We slept the first night at 

 Brussels, next at Cologne, and the third arrived at 

 Wiesbaden. We found Mrs. Carnegy of Lour, Mrs. 

 Craigie Halkett and her daughters there. We put 

 up at the White Rose. General Conolly was there. 

 I had known him many years, and remember him 

 riding a steeplechase at Leamington. He was very 

 unwell, and died very suddenly in the hotel. The 

 police came and took possession of all his things. 

 His servant was a Corfu man, and he gave me the 

 address of General Gray at Bath. I wrote to him 

 and he came out at once. He was rather a helpless 

 chap in a strange country, so I had to go about with 

 him. We went to the burial-ground with a commis- 

 sionnaire, who said, " Wir wollen ein Grab kaufen," 

 and we chose a corner place. We then went in 

 search of a clergyman. His name was Matzukelli. 

 After talking to him, he said, " Was your brother at 



