260 'OLD q' 



till a Scottish gentleman pronounced it an infu- 

 sion of whisky, lemon, and some bitter ingredients, 

 called, so he affirmed, north of the Tweed, the ' house- 

 keeper's dram.' This Mr. Christie soon twisted into 

 the ' liqiieiir de Drumlanrig,' which so mystified some 

 of the gapers round that it fetched a guinea a bottle. 



I find it reported, the month following, that the 

 heir-at-law, Lord Douglas, objected to the late Duke's 

 personal legacies on the same grounds as I have al- 

 ready alluded to when relating the Earl of Wemyss's 

 action against his grace's executors — letting the en- 

 tailed estates at low annual rents in order to raise 

 feus on the tenants, from which it was said his grace's 

 immense personal property had sprung. But it will 

 be found that, though some years elapsed before an 

 amicable arrangement was made, all eventually ob- 

 tained their legacies and annuities. 



'Jack' Radford, as a specific legatee, thought to 

 benefit by the ' craze ' for souvenirs of Queensberry, 

 but the realisation of his hopes was disappointed 

 when his grace's string of vehicles were offered. These, 

 although of the best taste and workmanship, were then 

 old-fashioned, even the famous green vis-d-vis, usually 

 drawn by long-tailed black horses, in which Raikes 

 says he saw a little old man with a muff — ' Q ' — 

 who swore like ' ten thousand troopers.' 



