6 REMINISCENCES OF 



" Dragon," a black horse with a grey tail. Honey- 

 man had been a private in the Fife Fencible Cavalry, 

 and afterwards in the Fife Yeomanry, and was a 

 groom at Charleton all the rest of his life. They 

 found a fox in the Horse Shoe Wood and ran to- 

 wards Balcarres, and the donkey ran away with 

 Mary. Crane was huntsman. He had been hunts- 

 man in the Peninsular War with the Duke of Wel- 

 lington. Mr. Rigg of Tarvit and Captain Wemyss 

 were joint masters. On going to the covert all the 

 field went through a gate except John Dalyell of 

 Lingo, who jumped the sunk fence, which is now 

 abolished. 



We were in Edinburgh in the winter of 1825, 

 and lived at 35 York Place, next door to Colvin 

 Smith the artist. He painted my sister Jean's pic- 

 ture. We had the whooping cough, and after that 

 she was so changed that he could not finish it. While 

 there I was sent to my first school, a day school kept 

 by Mr. Knight in George Street, where there were 

 about 1 20 dirty little beggars. 



In 1826 my father, mother and one sister went 

 to London, and posted all the way, taking me with 

 them. 



My uncle, William Adam, had a house in Great 

 Russell Street, No. 104. He was a lawyer and 

 accountant-general, and was also Commissioner for 

 the Duke of Bedford, whose two sons, Henry and 

 Cosmo, were committed to his care. I and my 

 cousin, Willy Adam, were sent with them to school 

 at Putney at Mr. Carmalt's. He was a big, stout 



