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acher, North British Railway, allowed our horses 

 to go through by fast train, so we all arrived 

 at three o'clock, and found Mac and his wife just 

 come in from hunting. Shore, the huntsman, was 

 on sick list, having had a fall and concussion of the 

 brain. I went to have a chat with him. While 

 there the hounds came home, and Lord Henry Scott 

 came to report to him the day's sport. They had 

 killed a fox. George Summers was hunting the 

 hounds. Lord Henry took me round the stable of 

 the Duke's horses. 



Next day we met at Mertoun ; found in a 

 beautiful gorse cover. Hounds ran in the fields 

 parallel to the road for some distance, then crossed, 

 but the populace in the road drove them too far over 

 the line. Got the line again, but did no good. 

 Found again in another nice gorse and ran into 

 Floores, and hung about there ; then went to New- 

 ton Don, a beautiful place, but no fox, and Stichel, 

 and then we went home. Little scent ; a very nice 

 field and lots of pleasant people — Charlie Balfour, 

 Scott- Plumer, Scott of Sinton, etc. 



A good pack of hounds (dogs) ; George Summers 

 first whip, acting as huntsman, a nice fellow and 

 good horseman. Most of the field rode horses with 

 bang tails, and they called them thoroughbred ! The 

 country very nice ; a fair lot of grass, no wire, and 

 the hedges beautifully kept. 



8th. — Point-to-point races. Mindrum Mill. 

 Went in a carriage with wife, Kitty Robertson 

 and Aleck Gillespie, Met Lady Orr-Ewing and 



