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" Nothing is too good for exhibition-birds; give them daily exercise and 

 an abundance of food. Linseed is calculated to give lustre to the plumage ; 

 and toast, soaked in ale, sprightiiness, courage, and strength." 



THE SCOTTISH HEXWIPE. 



Mr. Watson of Keillor His Show-yard Career Old Grannie 

 The Polled Herd Book Experience of Southdowns A Judge of 

 Distance Mr. Bowie's Herd Dr. Murray of Carnoustie The Story 

 of The Cure Major Douglas Salmon Fishing on the Fife Coast 

 Spcedie v. Seals The Shark and her Whelps Cock and Hen Salmon 

 The Carse of Gowrie Rossic Priory " The Scottish Hemvife." 



^ SjpHE castle of old Forfar" might once, as 

 a poet observes, have been " stuffit full of 

 Inglishmen" ; but we had no time to inquire after the 

 fate of our compatriots, as we pointed straight from 

 Kirremuir to Mains of Kelly. Keillor, which has 

 always been regarded as the very Warlaby of the 

 " doddies," lies about twelve miles from it, and a 

 little east of Cupar Angus. It will be four years 

 come Martinmas since Mr. Watson left it, after a 

 residence of four-and-fi fty years, and retired to a new 

 home in Perth. He was purely catholic in his 

 cattle tastes. Bracelet, Charity, and one or two 

 more of the pure Booths were the models he 

 kept in his eye, in building up his blacks ; 



