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" A teering nag was Sharpe's Canteen, 



But nowt to old Springkell ; 

 And Chass<5 was a ganner, 



And Inheritor as well : 

 A tougher meer than Modesty 



The Border never crossed ; 

 But Cumberland just banged them a' 

 Wi' Ramshay's Lanercost." 



CUMBERLAND BALLAD. 



The late Lord Lynedoch Net Fishing at the Lynn of Campsie Mr. 

 Speedie's Ice House Salmon Prices The Scone Steading Mr. 

 Paton's Gun Shop The Caledonian Hunt Club at Perth The Club 

 Rules Its different Places of Meeting Forty-five Years of Racing. 



STIVERS rambles down the wooded banks of the 

 V Almond, with our old friend "Hawthorne/'* 

 beguiled the next two days. Of course we visited 

 the graves of Bessie Bell and Mary Gray, who live 

 and move again as Clydesdale pairs in many a Scottish 

 show-yard, and the ruined cottage of the late Lord 

 Lynedoch. The veteran died at 93, but to the last 

 he hated to be thought old, and woulfl go aside with 

 his servant, that no one might see him helped on 

 horseback. When he shot grouse at a very advanced 

 age on Glenesk, he could not be persuaded to sleep 

 in the lodge, but 



" Lay, like a warrior taking his rest," 



on his own iron bedstead and bear rug, in a portable 



