CHAP. III.] HOLIDAYS AT GLENLAIR. 63 



aspect of harmless gaiety. Cousin Jemima was again 

 there with her pencil. The "tubbing" was, of course, 

 resumed, this time conjointly, and the scene of it was 

 advanced from the duck -pond to the river, showing 

 greatly increased confidence in navigation. 1 



There were nutting excursions, walks diversified 

 with climbing, etc. etc. And in August and September ^. 12. 

 1843 there were again archery meetings at different 

 houses in the valley, of one of which (the last) there 

 has been preserved the following notice from one of 

 the local newspapers of the time : 



AKCHERY IN " THE HAPPY VALLEY." 



The Toxophilite Club of the Valley of Urr held their 

 last meeting for the season on Mrs. Lawrie of Ernespie's 

 lawn, on Tuesday the 12th curt. The club consists of from 

 forty to fifty members. 



Their meetings this summer have been quite charming. 

 They ranged over the whole valley, on this fair lawn to-day, 

 and on that the next ; and after their couple of hours of 

 archery was over, a picnic took place on the spot. " God 

 save the Queen" was invariably sung with the most 

 graceful loyalty ; and the hospitable mansion adjoining gave 

 them music and a hall for the evening quadrille, which 

 wound up the delights of the day. 



At every meeting some little prize was proposed to give 

 zest to the sport ; Mr. Herries of Spottes, for instance, gave 

 a case of ladies' arrows, which was shot for and gained by 

 one of the lady competitors. Nor lacks the club its 

 Laureate and its Painter to glorify the pastime. A scion of 



and adopted even by the local newspapers in their notices of various 

 social gatherings. 



1 Long afterwards, when asked by some one ignorant of Galloway, 

 if there was boating on the Urr, he would answer by a grave reference 

 to this incident. 



