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fifth Earl of Airlie, " in the generous enthusiasm of 

 youth joined the Chevalier at Edinburgh, 17^5, with 

 a regiment of six hundred." The inscription on one 

 old, grey tombstone records the frail assurance of a 

 survivor for its inmate, 



" Who by a course of verteous acts 

 Eternal life secured;" 



and a poet has evidently been engaged to set forth 

 the crowning act of another Forfar worthy, who died 

 in 1732: 



" Here lyes James Winter, 

 Who died in Peathaugh, 

 Who fought most valointly 

 At ye Water of Saugh, 

 Along with Ledenhendry, 

 Who did command the day : 

 They vanquis the enemy 

 And made them run away. (1707.)" 



Adding the date was the finest touch of the whole. 

 Ledenhendry, it seems, led the attack against the 

 Cateran, and was getting the worst of it in a single 

 combat with their leader the " Hawkit Stirk," when 

 his friend Winter got behind the " Stirk" and ham- 

 strung him. At all events, this is the country com- 

 ment on the third line of the poem. 



There were enough well-favoured Irish bullocks on 

 Pat Haugh to raise two or three such Water of Saugh 

 strifes ; and in a field hard by were Warbler by Fourth 

 Duke of Oxford, with Queen, Sultana, Lady Blanche, 

 and another of Lord Raglan's daughters. There are 

 not more than eight cows in the herd ; and Canary, 

 the dam of Confederate, the present bull, died just 

 before her son won the reserve number in the year- 

 ling class at Stirling. The Cure was at Cortachy for 



