BOBBIE DAWSON. 



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leads men to try many things, or bo interested in many pursuits. Ho 

 was of the antique race of Nimrod — a mighty hunter. 



When yet quite a lad, Bobbie was officially connected 

 with hounds, for not only did he act as whip when his father 

 was hunting the Bilsdale, but at the same time he was a sort 

 of kennel huntsman for Sir Hy. Foulis, who at that time kept 

 a pack of harriers at Ingleby Manor. He walked down from 

 Bilsdale every morning, or rode a galloway, exercised this 

 little pack, fed them, and was back in Bilsdale in time to 



BOBBIE DAWSON S HOUSE. 



turn out with the dale pack on a hunting morning. These 

 harriers — I am assuming they were harriers — would no doubt 

 be such as most landed gentlemen kept at this period. 

 Having no regular days of meeting, the owner would hunt 

 when he felt so inclined, or when he had friends staying. 

 Bobbie always thought that the late Lord de L'Isle, who 

 succeeded to the Ingleby estates, was retrogressive, insomuch 

 as he neither kept hounds nor foxes, and a meeting he had 

 with the deceased bearer of that title will be given in due 

 course. At this period, Bobbie was living at Orra, a little 

 cluster of houses in Bilsdale, but later he removed to the far 

 end of the dale, where he occupied for years a quaint little 

 house, an illustration of which is given. 



Perhaps the pre-eminent thought on entering this little 

 house was, " This man never had a wife." It was essentially 



