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summing up in recent years had been : " Carry 

 on: each must be first!" He died on llth July 

 of this year. (See Appendix.) 



BUTCHERCOTE. 



" After a fortnight's shooting holiday in this Border country, I come away with 

 vivid impressions of wiry medium-sized men, long-framed Leicester sheep, and 

 great demons of hares." Forfarshire Farmer's letter, 1894. 



Although Mr Allan M. Douglas is not a Border 

 man except through links of ancestry, he has fallen 

 into the wonderful spirit of the Tweedside, Teviot, 

 Yarrow, and Gala Water country. He has studied 

 the Kaims or Sandhills, the Hopes or Glens, the Laws, 

 the Rigs, the agricultural expanses, the pastoral 

 slopes and uplands, all the way down to the 

 Cheviots. A land of poetry and romance, enterpris- 

 ing farming and stock - breeding, thorough - going 

 fox-hunting, and good-fellowship ! Farming in historic 

 Mertoun parish, and looking south, Mr Douglas has 

 Faldonside not far away to the left. Farther off 

 west by St Mary's Loch he has Dryhope. Right 

 over the line of vision the Cheviot Range, the 

 Dunion, Ruberslaw, the Minto Hills, and the Maiden's 

 Paps appear, or show in parts through the mist. 

 The Wisp is to the south-west, and turning farther 

 round the Eildons and Grahamslaw emerge. 



Mr Douglas began farming at Spotsmains in 1901, 

 and at the Orchardmains dispersion sale the following 

 season he bought four heifers. About the same time 

 he acquired two or three very good but short-pedi- 



