20 FIELD AND FERN. 



O Yes ! ! ! with his brother Cacciatore^ who ran 

 up with Empress for the Caledonian Cup. It was a 

 very memorable cup, from the fact that the winner 

 and Lord Douglases black dog Kent were so ex- 

 hausted in one of the ties that they were obliged to 

 lie down ; but there were not nearly so many dogs 

 as in Camarine^s year, when more than a hundred 

 w^ere in it, and it took above a week to run it off. 

 Screw was another of Mr. A. Graham^s early cham- 

 pions, and he put the screw on with her to some pur- 

 pose, as she won the Altcar Purse in England one 

 week, the Caledonian Cup in Scotland the next, and 

 the Prince Albert Stakes in the South of Ireland, 

 the one after that, long before there Y*^as easy trans- 

 port by railway. 



Mr. A. Graham began as a young man at Dirleton 

 and Danskine, East Lothian, and then extended his 

 circuit to the Lanarkshire, Henfrew^hire, and Ayr- 

 shire Clubs. Sandy Robinson, so well known in 

 every coursing field by his enormous hat, quite a 

 covering from the heat by day and the dews by night, 

 was his trainer at first ; and when his trainer days 

 were over, he followed the meetings witli a violin. As 

 a walker Sandy had few peers in his prime, and he 

 thought nothing of the 87 miles to Danskine and 

 home again with his dogs. After some days' rest, he 

 would go to Dirleton, which was nearly the same dis- 

 tance. 



The dogs were collected, each from the farmhouse 

 where it was reared, and these walks were almost 



