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from old Tom Carter, who hunted Sir Mark Sykes' 

 hounds then, and engaged John Fobert as feeder, and 

 had him at Dalkeith for several years, and all he ever 

 knew of kennel management he learned from him. He 

 was father of the trainer, John Fobert, who afterwards 

 trained for Lord Eglinton. 



I am very glad you have asked me for those dates, as 

 I have had them so many times from the late Dake him- 

 self, who delighted to tell you anything connected with the 

 hounds and country ; and from "Williamson I think I 

 may have learned more about the country then and now 

 hunted by the Duke than you might now get from any 

 other quarter. As far as I could make out from him, the 

 hounds of that day were very much the same as his 

 Grace liked to have now — light, racing, rather leggy 

 hounds. Of late years they are shorter on the 

 leg, and a little more bone — what old Will and his 

 Grrace to the last called lumber. 



I hope these few notes may be of service to you. If 

 so, I will be very pleased. 



(From Col. Anstruther Thomson.) 



William Shore. 



IN MEMORIAM. 



GEORGE WHYTE-MELYILLE, 



Died 1878. 



The engineer by his own petard slain. 



The eagle pierced by shaft from his own wing. 



Are plaintive fancies such as poets sing, 



And touch the heart but coldly, thro' the brain. 



