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hunting mantle fell on Ballantyne of The Shaws, and 

 his old dog Ringwood, the sire of nearly all the good 

 ones about, not only ^Yon a first prize at Bellingham 

 Show, but was running still in the spring of ^64 as a 

 ten-season hound. Kyle himself died in 1861, but 

 he did not lack the sacer vates, as his memory has 

 been sun^ in eloquent strains by the son of Chris- 

 topher North. 



Adam or Yeddie Jackson of Fairloan, at the head 

 of Liddle, was also quite a king of the hunters, and 

 had been, as Tom Potts, a brother shepherd, said, at a 

 "vast 0^ banes breaking.^' His opinion about whisky 

 was that he should like to be " a whaup and live by 

 suction," and he did live into his ninety-eighth year. 

 He was quite deaf at last, and wore spectacles, and 

 when they drew Deadwater Fells he would hobble to 

 the house end with his grand-daughter to take a look 

 at them, and told her to nudge him whenever there 

 was music. 



Davidson of Hindley or " Dandie Dinmont" did 

 not care for a pack of dogs, and with a shepherd or 

 two to help him, two hounds and the terrier bitches 

 Tug and Tar, he was about a match for any Liddes- 

 dale fox. Be it foulmart, cat, or even a collie dog, 

 he had a turn at it. He always went over to Ab- 

 botsford, and met Hogg, Laidlaw, Captain Clutter- 

 buck, &c., at the annual coursing meeting, when Sir 

 "Walter, with Maida at his feet, watched from a hill 

 the doings of what the latter evidently considered an 

 inferior race. It was a merry night at Selkirk, and 



