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peeped into every nook and corner of the capital 

 new bothy, where each man has a separate bed- 

 room, our route was once more down the Spey, 

 on whose banks we found Mr. "Wainman and a 

 couple of friends in the snuggest of fishing-cottages. 

 People who read up during the show season must 

 fancy that he lives in a perpetual shower of prize 

 pig telegrams from Fisher, but they are very far 

 wrong. He thinks very little of King Cube, Happy 

 Link, Silver Age, and all the rest of them, in com- 

 parison with the lemon- and-whites in his kennel, 

 and the treasures of that strangely curved box for the 

 fishing-rods, which is peculiar to " the throw on the 

 Spey." 



It was far too hot for the hill, and we were Banff- 

 bound that night ; and on we went by rail through 

 a deep gorge of whin and heather, and passed, a few 

 miles on this side of Keith, the well-known farm of 

 Mulben. Mr. Paterson began in '45, and keeps 

 about twenty Angus cows and queys. His best tribe 

 is the Mayflower, which is descended from a quey of 

 Mr. Thurburn's of Drum, and he has also had a slice 

 from the herds of Lord Southesk, M'Combie, Bowie, 

 Walker, George Brown, and Davidson pf Inchmarlow. 

 Black Jock carried a silver medal as the best polled 

 bull in the Banff showyard in '54; andMayflower (614) 

 was born the next spring, and eventually bloomed 

 into a two-year-old second, and the first cow at the 

 Highland Society. " Mulben" has also had his full 

 share, more especially with bulls, of the Highland 



