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afternoon. Algernon Legard and his wife, Yerburgh 

 and Heneage of 12th Lancers came. Miss Wright 

 very pretty, and whistled charmingly. 



On the 2 1 St we were due at Perth, for the High- 

 land Society's Show, to stay with Miss Rollo, at 

 Rodney Lodge. Started from Bolton, Wright driving 

 the coach, with Mrs. Legard and Isobel, and I driving 

 the brake, with Mrs. Wright on the box. Wright 

 had a plan of a loop of chain over the roller bolt 

 instead of a leather trace. Going down hill the loop 

 of chain jolted on to the splinter bar and touched the 

 wheeler on the thigh. He immediately fired a salute. 

 I checked him and he did no harm ; but I did not like 

 the look of him, and Mrs. Wright, who is very 

 knowledgeable, said, " He has not done with it yet". 

 When we were about two miles from Hellifield, 

 going up hill, he again kicked and got his leg over 

 the trace. Billy, Wright's head groom, was with us, 

 but they could not get the trace undone. Mrs. 

 Wright said, " Give me hold of the reins and you 

 get down and help them," which I did, and at last 

 got the horse loose ; put one of the leaders in his 

 place as wheeler, and off we started with about seven 

 minutes to catch the train. Luckily Wright was in 

 time and delayed it a little, and we got there four 

 minutes after the time. 



27th July. — Fife Light Horse inspection at St. 

 Andrews. I rode Harry Erskine's grey horse. 

 General Chapman stayed at Alexandra Hotel. The 

 General is a little man and he had a big horse. 

 His groom carefully put it on the high part of 



