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were just going to dinner and gave us some veal cut- 

 lets ; horses got some gruel. We did not get back 

 to Blair Adam till 10.30. 



Going through Kinross a cart drove up against 

 " Woodman". The shaft hit him on the side and he 

 died a few days afterwards. He was a real good 

 little horse, and carried me capitally with the Garri- 

 son Staghounds when quartered in Ireland. On ist 

 April I took four couple of hounds into the Falkland 

 Woods to hunt roe-deer. Mr. Balfour and party 

 came with guns and killed nine in a very short time.^ 



About the end of the season George Moore 

 asked me to return to Atherstone, and guaranteed 

 me ^2,200 per annum. 



This season Sir George Houston and Sir Hugh 

 Campbell hunted Berwickshire. Ben Morgan, from 

 Sir Richard Sutton, was their huntsman. They had 

 got several of the Fife hounds from Sir Richard, and 

 let me have some. One day two couple were left 

 out on the Lomond ; one hound went to Balbirnie, 

 where they slept the night before ; one to Charleton, 

 and " Edgar " went twenty miles to Torry kennels. 

 He had been both in Leicestershire and Berwick- 

 shire since he left there. The country was full of 

 roe-deer and hares. Hounds very unsteady and the 

 men not much good. There were only four foxes in 

 the east of Fife ; the best of them a lame dog-fox in 

 Kinglassie Wood. He never ran 100 yards straight, 

 and could run for a week — a rare fox to make young 

 hounds work. I often hunted him. One day I got 



' I don't think there are nine roe-deer in Fife at this time (1902). 



