48 REMINISCENCES OF 



" Fatty " Sutherland joined about this time, He 

 was seventeen years old, and weighed seventeen 

 stone. He was in the same troop with me, and 

 Fullarton was our Captain. Fullarton was about 



5 ft. 4 in., and on foot parade he had to stand be- 

 tween his two subalterns. Sutherland was about 



6 ft. I in. and I was 6 ft. 3 in. and right-hand man 

 of the line. 



At Glasgow Fair there were two giantesses 

 (Americans) in a booth. I was put between them, 

 being the tallest man in the place. I could just 

 reach the tops of their heads. 



In August Ralph Anstruther invited me to go 

 and shoot at Braemore. John Dalyell and Hamilton 

 Anstruther were the rest of the party. I went on the 

 mail, and drove it part of the way, through Dingwall 

 arriving at Dunbeath at three o'clock in the morning. 

 Next day I got a cart and pony for the luggage, 

 and walked to Braemore. 



The year 1837 was the last the Fife Hounds 

 went to Forfarshire. I had four horses — " Charlie," 

 " John," a grey horse and a grey mare. The club 

 assembled at Sandy Ross's hotel in Forfar. The 

 horses were kept there, and the hounds in a timber- 

 yard just outside the town. Walker (the huntsman) 

 lived at Sandy Ross's, and the waiter, an old red- 

 headed man, was the earth-stopper. Old Lord 

 Panmure presided over the first dinner. James 

 Rait, John Kinloch, Balfour Oglivy and Archie 

 Douglas were there. Admiral Wemyss, John 

 Whyte - Melville, Fred Wedderburn and myself 



