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In BARCLAY'S time you would mount the box or 

 take a seat inside of the ''Defiance," in which famous 

 old-time coach the Captain had a financial and deep 

 personal interest. He was a claimant of the earl- 

 dom of Monteith, and writing of him the late WM. 

 McGoMBiE of Tillyfour, one of the founders of the 

 Angus "doddie" breed, once said: 



"No one would have made any mistake as to 

 Gapt. BARCLAY being a gentleman, although his dress 

 was plain a long green coat with velvet collar and 

 big yellow buttons, a colored handkerchief, long yellow 

 cashmere vest, knee-breeches, very wide top-boots 

 and plain black hat." 



So much has been written of BARCLAY'S exploits 

 as perhaps the greatest all-around sportsman of his 

 day, that his place as a contributor to Scottish 

 national wealth, and, incidentally, to the world's 

 riches, cattle-wise, has never quite been fully ac- 

 knowledged. He was himself an athlete of renown, 

 and it is marvelous that he should have been able 

 to actively indulge his keen delight in the domains 

 of coaching, coursing, the prize-ring, fox hunting, 

 military training and other exercises demanding 

 physical strength and endurance, and at the same 

 time devote so much attention to the introduction 

 of good blood into his native Northland, and to the 

 production of cattle which formed the beginnings 



