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wide jumpers^ but a little hot, and one of them, a 

 four-year°old from a St. Martin mare, won the Hunt 

 prize of jglO for the best four -year-old colt or filly 

 at Lockerby. Hence the late Mr. Tattersall, whose 

 grandfather's most successful blood-stock venture 

 was his trip to buy an Earl of Eglinton's brood mares, 

 proved a little out when he joked Mr. Johnstone and 

 said he '^ might do to get mules with.'' 



Mr. John Johnstone followed the horses from 

 India. As the portrait and memoir in the Cal- 

 cutta Spo7^ting Magazine prove, he was a mighty hog 

 hunter in his day, and, as " Josto King of Spears," he 

 was known '' in the field of Kushnaghur," as well as 

 in the Calcutta Tent Club. For two seasons he 

 hunted the Calcutta Hounds, which ran the jackal, 

 in default of foxes. They had a supply of draft fox- 

 hounds out each year from England, and generally 

 thirty- five couple in kennel. Throwing off in the 

 grey dawn, and finding in a dry nullah or a grass 

 jungle was very difi*erent to a climb up Rammer- 

 scales hill, or a fast thing from the Duke's cover 

 to Castle Milk ; but Joe Graham is " Josto" now^ 

 and, as Joe says, " Mr. Johnstone's a clipping secre- 

 tary, and one of our first flight." The J's, to wit 

 the Jardines, the Johnstones, and Joe, keep the game 

 well alive in Annandale. 



Hallheaths is not occupied at present, but there 

 are vestiges of the quiet, earnest sportsman who died 

 there in '57. Herring, senior, came here with his 

 son Charles to paint hunters, and we also found 



