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From Rosies Journal. " I and Kitty Babington 

 started with ' Beauty ' to go to Gibliston. When 

 we got to Balcarres we heard some 'holloaing' on 

 and hounds running. I got on the pony and left 

 Kitty and joined the chase. It was scrumptious. 

 We ran from Balcarres all along the Double dykes, 

 turned to the left and then down to the little lane to 

 Balcaskie, and hearing ' who- whoop ' galloped on 

 to the road again, and found they had killed him. 

 It was quite dark, and we did not get home till seven 

 o'clock. I got the brush. We left some hounds on 

 the rock at Balcarres Craig. Next morning about 

 ten o'clock papa and I walked to Balcarres to try 

 and get down the hounds. They were all together 

 on a ledge 'Marksman,' 'Harriet,' 'Purity' and 

 ' Rambler '. We had taken a halter and a bag of 

 bread, so we ' clomb ' the mount for some way and 

 then papa went on to them, while I stood on a big 

 ledge about six or eight feet lower down. Papa 

 then caught ' Purity ' and tied the halter round her 

 neck and slung her down as far as the halter would 

 reach, then I caught her and lifted her on to her legs, 

 gave her some bread and let her go ; and so on with 

 all of them. We got them down beautifully before 

 the other people (with ropes, pulleys, etc.) came up. 

 They were perfectly ravenous, having had nothing 

 to eat for fifty-two hours. We fed them as soon as 

 we got them here, and Fred came down soon after 

 and took them back to the kennels." 



1878. One day cub-hunting at Durie, Captain 

 Christie rode close after me all the morning. I got 



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