JANUARY 7 



mand which frequent entries like the following show 

 to have been readily obeyed : 



' Mr. Bruce of Grangemuir bets that he will produce a leg 

 of mutton against the September meeting of the Club 

 superior to one to be produced by Mr. Haig of Seggie, for a 

 magnum of port to the Club. Taken by Mr. Haig. 



' Mr. Bruce also bets that he will produce at the December 

 meeting next a leg of white-faced mutton superior to one to 

 be produced by Mr. Glass, Kinaldy, for a magnum of port. 

 Taken by Mr. Glass. 



' The Captain bets that he will produce a ham superior to 

 one to be produced by Mr. Bruce against the next meeting 

 for a magnum of port. Taken by Mr. Bruce.' 



Not only, then, to the broad sunlight and the keen 

 breath of the German Ocean must be attributed the 

 fine Venetian complexions of the notabilities whose 

 portraits, finely reproduced by the three-colour process, 

 adorn and enliven Mr. Everard's pages. 



'^Itas parentum, pejor avis, tulit 

 Nos nequiores.' 



Few of our feebler generation would present a very 

 brave appearance on the links on the morrow of an 

 encounter with those big-bellied magnums ; fewer still 

 are those whose heads could endure the burden of 

 the portentous chimney-pot hats, which appear to have 

 been deemed as indispensable a part of the general 

 sportsman's costume seventy years ago, as they remain 

 to this day, strange to say, in that of the fashionable 

 fox-hunter. It deepens veneration for the physical 

 prowess of our grandsires to know that they disdained 

 to sacrifice dignity to comfort by donning democratic 



