TINWALD DOWNS TO HALLHEATHS. S33 



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"Mr. Kirby had an order for two cows, 'one for a nobleman, and the 

 other for the Empress of Russia; but the imperial cow died on the pas- 

 sage, and the Avorst had to be led to the Palace for inspection. ' Why,' 

 asked the Empress, 'are three teats so large, and one so small f 'It's all 

 correct, i^lease your Majesty,' said the ever ready Luke Xott,' three are for 

 the milk, and the little one for the cream.' ' Indeed !' said the Empress." 



Silk ai^d Scaelet (p. 149). 



Tinwald Do\\tis — The New and Old Race Courses — Mr. Wilkin's Blood 

 Stock — Stable Scenes — Jamie Heughan's Discipline — Bob Jolinson's 

 Tumble off Saucebox — Drumlanrig Castle — Tbe Duke of Buccleuch's 

 Stock at Holstane and Tibbers — Vendace at Loclimaben — The late 

 Mr. Andrew Johnstone — Blood Stock at Hallheaths. 



^NE road from Dumfries to Tinwald Downs lies 

 ^ past the station gardens^ whose lavender-coloured 

 borders, yellow calceolarias, and scarlet geraniums 

 still attest the Scottish love of flowers in the very 

 teeth of that arch leveller, Steam. There were 

 plenty of " stinking violets" in the Carnsalloch woods, 

 which furnish many a grand ring to the Dumfries- 

 shire hounds, among their deep heather lying, and 

 round by the Burnt Firs, a noted cub harbour, at 

 the north end of Lochar Moss. The Moss is an 

 eight-thousand-acre tract with twelve feet of outfall ; 

 the peats ai'e being fast cut away, but it has held 

 for eight-and-twenty years the debris of the unhappy 

 steam plough, and not even a team of eight or ten 



