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optimist until well-nigh a troubled fourscore, and 

 quick as a bird in observation, he had a great deal 

 of what one might term pot-shot talent and shrewd- 

 ness, but in matters which required something of a 

 student's faculty he naturally hopped at times to 

 wrong conclusions. Still, he was an attraction. Un- 

 fortunately for himself, he rarely took account of a 

 coming " rainy day," and he died poor. 



In the sixth decade of last century the Kinkell 

 herd, already referred to, and Mr Drummond's at 

 Marlfield, to be further dealt with, were the best 

 known in West Perthshire. Mr Turnbull had then and 

 later a herd of more than local repute at Hunting- 

 tower. Over fifty years ago Mr John Drummond, 

 a successful Glasgow contractor, acquired the pro- 

 perty of Blackruthven and began to found a herd 

 in 1869 with selections from Keir, the Duke of 

 Montrose, Huntingtower, Sittyton, Blebo, Windsor, 

 Rossie Priory, and Elmhurst Hall. In its mid-course 

 the herd, which rapidly came into the flush of prize- 

 winning, was a good blend of Booth, Sittyton, Knight- 

 ley, and Bates blood. The most noted family at 

 Blackruthven was the Orange Blossom. From Mr 

 Amos Cruickshank Mr Drummond acquired Orange 

 Jelly, by Lord Lansdowne (29,128). To the Sittyton 

 Baron of the Isles (36,196) Orange Jelly produced 

 Orange Jelly 2nd, which in her turn bred Orange 

 Jelly 3rd, by the Dunmore Lord of Alabama (38,630). 

 The 2nd and 3rd of the family passed into the pos- 

 session of Mr Thomas Lawson of Carriston, Fifeshire. 

 Mr Lawson put Orange Jelly 3rd to the Sisterpath 



