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and pluck, this feat stands unsurpassed in the annals 

 of sport. 



On another occasion Lord Kennedy backed himself 

 for 1,000 guineas to shoot forty brace of grouse and 

 ride from his shooting quarters at Feloar, in Perthshire, 

 to his house, Dunottur, near Stonehaven, and back to 

 Feloar in a day. He started very early, rain falling 

 all the time. He killed forty brace by 9 a.m., changed 

 his dress on the hill-side, and mounted a very clever 

 hack, on which he rode the first seven or eight miles. 

 There was no road for that distance ; but thence there was 

 a tolerable road to Dunottur, along which he had relays 

 of horses. From Feloar to Dunottur is about 80 miles. 

 He got back to Feloar at 8 p.m., having shot 40 brace 

 of grouse and ridden 160 miles in less than 15 hours, 

 and was not in the least knocked up by it. 



I may also mention here his famous golf match by 

 night, which came off during the Montrose race week. 

 At the race ordinary Lord Kennedy and Mr. Cruick- 

 shank, of Langley Park, got up a match of three holes 

 for 500 each hole, and agreed to play it then and 

 there. It was half-past ten, and quite dark. No light 

 was allowed except one lantern placed on the hole, 

 and another carried by the attendant of the player, 

 that they might ascertain to whom the ball struck 

 belonged. Boys were placed to listen to the flight of 

 the balls, and run to the spot when a ball fell. Lord 

 Kennedy won the odd hole, and curiously enough in 

 the same number of strokes in which he usually did 

 it by daylight. 



Of Lord Kennedy's mad matches with Lord Kelburne, 



