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in Lincolnshire, Mr. Jarvis being abroad for the 

 season. I happened to meet one of Colonel 

 Gardyne's sons, and said, " Tell your father that 

 Harry Goodall would like to see a hunt again". 

 Colonel Gardyne kindly wrote to Colonel Ewart, 

 who granted Goodall three days' leave. He went 

 down to Doddington and went out hunting next 

 day in his red stable jacket, leather breeches, boots 

 and forage cap, and rode at the head of the hunt 

 all day. He was extremely popular with every one, 

 and had a very good time of it. He died of con- 

 sumption in the regiment about 1899. 



Colonel Gardyne re-established the Forfar 

 Hounds in 1867, there having been no pack in that 

 country for some years. The keenness of the field 

 and the severity of the climate is well described in 

 the Scottish ballad by Mrs. Gardyne, of which I 

 quote some verses : 



A SCOTTISH BALLAD. 



2oth January, 1870. 



The frost lay east, the frost lay west, 



The frost was in the ground ; 

 The loch was ice, the hills were white, 



The fields were iron-bound. 



The Master looked his window forth, 



An' O his face was wae : 

 " It's vain to dress, it's vain to mount, 



We's ne'er can hunt the day ". 



Tramp, tramp 1 upon the frozen ground 



The horses' hoofs ring out ; 

 The red coats gleam the horsemen seem 



To gather all about. 



