i68 REMINISCENCES OF 



Deacon, Master). The Fife Hounds met on the 

 same day at Elie. Rosie was riding my horse 

 " Victor," a very hard puller and a roarer. Hounds 

 ran very hard to Kilbrackmont, about thirty-five 

 minutes. Colonel Babington and Rosie were first all 

 the way. Hounds ran through the covert at Kil- 

 brackmont. Rosie galloped away straight across the 

 field and got an awful fall over a wall rather up hill 

 and into a road. Her groom, Woods, on " Bachelor," 

 instead of following her, went straight up the field 

 and through a gate. When he got round to where 

 she was, she had just got upon her feet and the horse 

 was galloping away. The blood was pouring down 

 from her face. He jumped off his horse, and asked 

 her if she could come home in a carriage, then he 

 left her in charge of Mr. Balfour and rode home for 

 the carriage. 



Her mother wrote : " I sent for Doctor Lumgair, 

 and I got towels and sponges, sal-volatile and eau- 

 de-Cologne. As I was going out I met Mr. Balfour 

 in back drawing-room, who relieved me by telling 

 me that it was a severe cut. 



" I drove in the brougham to Mr. Scott's house. 

 She was lying on a bed, Ella Erskine with her. 

 She told Ella that she did not wish me to see it, so I 

 was sent downstairs to wait till she walked down, 

 bare-headed (hat torn to pieces). She was bleeding 

 and did lose a great deal of blood. At the door of 

 Charleton stood Doctors Lumgair and Palm. She 

 walked to my bedroom and was placed upon the 

 sofa. They chloroformed her. She took an unusual 



