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he was going to be hanged ! He explained that 

 everything was ready and packed up, that he went 

 on to the station, leaving his son to follow with a 

 spring-cart, and he had missed the train. There was 

 another train due at nine o'clock the same evening, 

 and we felt sure the goods would arrive by it. When 

 the train arrived the guard said, ' Your goods were 

 on the platform, but the basket was so big it wouldn't 

 go through the door of the van, so we had to leave 

 it behind.' We were all in despair ? However, a 

 train was due about five o'clock in the morning, by 

 which the oroods arrived. We served them out at 

 morning stables, and they looked very well. 



" Scott, Croall & Sons had made arrangements 

 to put up all the horses, and gave up for our use 

 their yard in Leith Walk, very conveniently situ- 

 ated. 



" Mr. Chiene kindly put his house in Edinburgh 

 at the disposal of the Cupar troop at the time of 

 the review, providing as many beds as possible. 

 Captain Crabtree and I both stayed there, and there 

 were refreshments on the table day and night during 

 thestay of the F.M.R.V." 



On the evening of their arrival the whole regi- 

 ment — in number ninety-two— dined together at the 

 Freemasons' Hall, and before dinner the Earl of 

 Rosslyn administered the oath. 



Captain Thomson proposed the health of the 

 non-commissioned officers, coupled with the name 

 of Sergeant- Major John Carstairs of the Kirkcaldy 



