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between Major Pat and Mrs. Lindsay Carnegy. 

 Mrs. Carnegy was next Major Pat on the other side, 

 and then the Colonel with Mrs. Ritchie, the chaplain's 

 wife, next him. Our table was across the end of the 

 room and two long ones down the two sides. The 

 toasts were as usual, then Captain Waring's, then the 

 toast of the evening, "The Colonel, and Mrs. 

 Anstruther Thomson," proposed by Major Carnegy. 

 After remarking that Mrs. Thomson was the daughter 

 of a soldier, and took a lively interest in all that 

 concerned the Light Horse, he said : " The members of 

 the corps all regretted having to say good-bye in an 

 official capacity to Colonel Thomson, and sympathised 

 with him on the unceremonious way he had been 

 written off. They had hoped that he would have 

 been with them for another inspection at least, and 

 to have been inspected by H.R. H. the Duke of 

 Cambridge, but they had waited too long. The 

 other day Colonel Thomson wrote to him asking if 

 he would go to Edinburgh with the regiment, and he 

 telegraphed back he would go anywhere, but the 

 authorities were a little too quick. They came in 

 between the arrangements, and consequently the 

 regiment did not go to Edinburgh. The Forfar 

 Light Horse had now been nineteen years in 

 existence, and he thought that Quartermaster Duncan, 

 Sergeant-major Andrews and himself were the only 

 persons identified with the corps who had been in it 

 since the beginning. Turning to Colonel Thomson, 

 Major Carnegy said he had to ask him to accept of a 

 small present which would remind him of the good 



