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in dismay. There^ too, is Mr. Borron^s Ardrossan 

 Cup, whicli was brought to Dalgig by Highland 

 Home ; and the Kyle Club Collar, with its wreath of 

 name-medals, was not long in its sideboard lair. It 

 is dated 1852, and bears, among other winning names, 

 those of Brighton, Picton, and Baron Garnock ; and 

 Calabaroono and Cadazooro, brothers by Cardinal 

 York out of Canopy, were its joint holders on Mr. 

 CampbelPs behalf. Their dam, and their grandam 

 Scotland Yet, hang on the walls; and Canaradzo 

 and Ciologa join partnership in the slips, with young 

 Mr. Campbell holding them. We have read in 

 Becher Ward of "the short, hot glitter of a rat^s 

 eye," but it is nothing to a bench of sixteen terriers, 

 whose gaze and grouping the photographer has 

 managed with wonderful tact. The stuifer^s art has 

 also been called into requisition for a black-cock and 

 a squirrel ; and there, too, is the head of a small 

 Boman-nosed hare, the identical one which was the 

 humble instrument of deciding the Biggar St. Leger 

 of 82 dogs, when Hippograif ran up to Condolorado 

 by Bedlamite out of Swallow. 



Dalgig derives its name from Dal-gig, or The vale 

 with the rise. It seems to be in the middle of a sort 

 of rough grass moor, which suits Ayrshires, as Mr. 

 Campbell has a perfect heap of medals to attest the 

 victories of his bulls Clarendon and Cardigan, and 

 has twice over beaten the whole county for the best 

 lot of milch cows. There are plenty of stone fences 

 and ditches about, and not many hares. The grouse 



