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points. The arrangements were better, on the 

 whole, than at the first tournament. The Lord High 

 Gommissioner, Lord Hopetoun, attended one day. 

 But the financial result was not so satisfactory, for 

 we just managed to pay our expenses. The judges 

 were Major Taylor, late nth Hussars, Captain 

 Hamilton, I4th Hussars, Captain Smithson, I3th 

 Hussars, Major Anstruther, R.A., and Major Tully. 



The annual drill of Fife and Forfar Light Horse 

 took place at St. Andrews on nth July. Colonel 

 Duncombe, late ist Life Guards, commenced as 

 inspecting officer. The Fife Herald and Journal 

 printed a special newspaper during the drill week. 

 Captain Gilmour asked me to write an article for it, 

 so I wrote the first chapter of the " History of Fife 

 Light Horse," and continued to send it weekly to 

 the paper. Colonel Wauchope of Niddrie also wrote 

 a most instructive letter of advice to recruits going on 

 active service. 



In 1888 Charlie and Agnes went to Australia 

 to visit Henry Loch, who was then Governor at 

 Melbourne. They sent their children, Grizel and 

 Johnald, who was only about one year old, to 

 Charleton in charge of a German nurse who would 

 not take proper care of them. She used to take the 

 babe in the perambulator to Colinsburgh and leave 

 him in the street while she went to chatter in the 

 shops. The consequence was that in January, 1889, 

 he got a very bad attack of bronchitis. He was 

 insensible for several days, had convulsions and 



symptoms of water on the brain. I sent to Edin- 

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