COL. ANSTRUTHER THOMSON 355 



"THE MENZIES ESTATES OFFICE, 

 " ABERFELDY, N.B., nth February, 1901. 



" DEAR MR. ANSTRUTHER THOMSON, 



" I have not forgotten the photo you asked 

 for to place among the fox-hunters of Scotland, which 

 I was for a good many years and with considerable 

 success ; and one day, I think in the month of July, I 

 got seven brace old ones and four well-grown cubs. 

 On another occasion I found a fox early in the 

 morning close to here and ran him on into the wood 

 at Logierait, ten miles off. We got him out of it 

 again and ran him back again, and killed him at 3 

 p.m., after hunting him good twenty miles from 

 where he was found and back to the cairn where he 

 was killed. 



" Yours faithfully, 



" R. MENZIES." 



He hunted foxes on foot. 



In 1902 John Bell of Balbuthie revived the sport 

 of coursing in Fife. In former days it was a common 

 custom in this county, and there were many clubs. 

 My father built the house at Kilmany originally as 

 the club house of the Kilmany Coursing Meeting. 

 As the country became more enclosed the practice 

 was almost given up. 



Andrew Aiken of Carnbee was a keen courser. 

 His greyhounds unfortunately one day killed a fox. 

 He took it home and weighed it. When he met his 

 friend James Clarke of Wormiston he said, " Jeames, 

 I'se warrant you'll no' ken the weight o' a tod ? " 



He used to go out walking on Sunday afternoon 



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