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CHAPTER VIII. 



FIFE TO FOLKESTONE, AND PERTH TO LANGWELL BY 



ROAD. 



1884. Monday, 25th February. Fife hounds at 

 Teasses Toll. 



Tuesday, 26th. I went to breakfast with Jim 

 Turnbull, and crossed at Queensferry. Lothian 

 Hounds at Dundas Castle. Atkinson was on sick 

 list ; Russell hunted the hounds. Turnbull mounted 

 me ; got a howler over a rail and spoiled my hat. 

 Ran into Hopetoun and killed. 



Wednesday, 27th. Went from Edinburgh to 

 Doddington. Charlie Gardyne had Jarvis' hounds 

 for the season while Jarvis was abroad. 



Thursday, 28th. Burton Hounds. Shrub, master, 

 and hunted them himself; has a o-ood voice, but not 



o 



much use. Had a tired fox running" down a fence 



o 



parallel with him, but afraid to jump it, so fox 

 escaped. Will Goddard, whipper-in ; Gardyne 

 mounted me. 



Friday, 29th. A bye-day with Gardyne ; he gave 

 me his whip's horse, and I whipped in to him. Had 

 a capital run ; found in a spinney close to Doddington, 

 and ran to Eagle Wood. A lot of the hounds were 

 short of work, so the hunt ran in two lots Gardvne 



