72 NIMROD'S NORTHERN TOUR. 



to tread such classic ground as " Flodden's ill-fated field," which lies at 

 the foot of the Cheviot hills. 



On my return to Dunse the same night, I found Lord Elcho had had 

 a fine day's sport. He killed his fox in the morning" ; had a hunting 

 run from Eddington-hill to the Lea rocks with his second fox, at noon ; 

 and, finding another at a quarter before four o'clock in the evening, ran 

 him for an hour at the very best pace, and whipped ofl", at dark, on 

 Eddington-hill. 



Friday 14. — A dies non in the hunting way. Amused myself by 

 looking over the studs in Dunse, amongst which was that of Sir David 

 Kinloch*, who arrived the same evening. Sir David — the wrong side of 

 fourteen stone in his saddle — is a very hard rider, and, although debarred 

 the enlivening influence of the grape, owing to having fractured his 

 skull by a fall, is a very cheerful companion at any hour of the day or 

 night. I was much pleased to make the acquaintance of this gentleman, 

 and for the following reasons : — He is not only passionately fond of 

 hunting, and also a great agriculturalist, but there formerly existed a 

 great intimacy between my family and an aunt of the Baronet's, the 

 lady of the late Sir Foster Cunliffe, Bart., of Acton-park, near Wrex- 

 ham, who was the first specimen of a Scottish lady that came under my 

 observation for nearly the first twenty years of my life. She is also now 

 in her grave, and therefore beyond the reach of either censure or praise, 

 — from censure, I believe, few were more free — but all who had the 

 pleasure of her acquaintance will join me in saying of her, that she was 



* Sir David resides at Gilmerton, near Haddington, about twenty-five miles from 

 Edinburgh. 



