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" He had ridden towards merrie Carlisle, 



When Pentecost was o'er : 

 He journeyed like errant knight the while, 

 And sweetly the summer sun did smile 



On mountain, moss, and moor." SCOTT. 



The late Sir John Sinclair Caithness Sheep Farming St. Mary's 

 Mass Georgemas Tryst Shorthorn Crosses Barrogill Castle 

 Barrock Plantations Shorthorn and Galloway Crosses Bringing-up 

 of Calves and Yearlings Sir George Dunbar's Leicester Mock Mail 

 Journey along the Coast A Night Ride on Horseback. 



mare was fully two stone below her Orkney 

 form, when we saddled her once more, and led 

 her off the packet at Scrabster Roads ; but a few 

 hours of stable-quiet brought her round, and we 

 were soon jogging leisurely past Thurso Castle. Sir 

 George Sinclair does not farm his estate, but is 

 content with the heritage of a great name, which 

 meets you in every page of the early history of the 

 Highland Society, and which will live as long as a 

 Cheviot ewe crops the heather of Langwell. A ballad 

 is never really popular till it is whistled at the plough 

 or set to the barrel organ; and we overheard the 

 quaintest Lowland appreciation of that unresting 

 baronet's labours in the denial of another tumbler of 

 toddy to a toper, unless he could say, " Sir John 



