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" Ajid find at night a sheltering cave, 

 Where waters flow, and wild winds rave 

 By Bonny Castle Gordon." 



The haunts of St. John Morayshire Sellers "Horned Beasts" 

 Lack of Breeders Feeding Stock Mutton for London Sheep 

 Panning Morayshire Feeders The Forres Fat Show Altyre Stock 

 The Balnnferry Herd From Forres to Elgin Pluskardene Abbey 

 Bargains Wester Alves and Ardgay The Story of the Buchan 

 Hero Elgin The Spey Fisheries The late Duke of Richmond- 

 Gordon Castle Its Breed of Setters Its Flocks and Shorthorn 

 Herds. 



?E are among the richer wheat lands, and breathe 

 the bright and bracing air of Morayshire at 

 last. The coast to our left is indented with bays and 

 lakes : "The bason of theFindhorn, the resort of in- 

 numerable wild-fowl; the sand-hills of Culbin, so 

 curious, almost so marvellous; the Black Forest, stretch- 

 ing away behind Brodie and Dalvey ; the ' Old Bar/ 

 where the seals love to sun themselves; the mouth 

 of the Muckleburn, the favourite haunt of the otter/* 

 all made the county dear to the heart of a naturalist 

 and sportsman like St. John. But such pleasures 

 are not for us. We can only ride on and remember 

 sadly that he is at rest on a Southern shore, and that 



