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down the strip behind the house. Here while I was 

 opening the gate he jumped up in view. " Edgar " 

 met him in a gap in the wall and caught him at 

 twenty-five minutes to six. " Towney " Oswald, 

 Young, Horsburgh and Cunningham were all that 

 came to the end. The latter, on a hard pulling 

 mare, got an awful fall at Lochore and stood on 

 his head for a minute. Distance, point to point, 

 about eleven miles ; the best run I have seen in 

 Fife. 



7th. — Milnathort. "Tyrant" cut his legs at Bal- 

 muto, and died a few days after. He was a beautiful 

 horse. The Duchess of Athol bought him for a 

 carriage-horse, but he was a bad kicker, so sold him 

 to George Condie in Perth, I bought him from him. 

 He kicked so bad in the stable, that I engaged the 

 man who looked after him. 



22nd March. — Damhead. Drew Glenearn blank ; 

 found a stag in Silly Whinny, and ran down to In- 

 vermay before I could stop them. Found a brace of 

 foxes and ran fast down the valley, past Dunning, 

 and went to ground in a drain at Kelty Castle. 

 George Moore was out, having come to stay with 

 me at Blair Adam. He brought a horse with him, 

 *' Rector," which had belonged to the Rev. Reginald 

 Chandos Pole. He made me a present of him. He 

 was scrambling over a rocky place muttering to him- 

 self, *' It is too rough a job, it is too rough a job ". 

 The drain was half full of water and the fox was 

 drowned. Lord Rollo, his brother " Hon. John," 

 and Colonel Richardson came out on foot. They 



