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'^ Our Jim" on tlie Thursday. Mr. Johnstone never 

 had a great horse again, but he stuck faithfully by 

 Touchstone when his own sires failed him, and not 

 only bred Lord of the Isles, but a 1,800-guinea year- 

 ling. Lord of the Hills, by him. Three colts were the 

 produce of the four mares which he sent to him 

 in his very last season. About two years before his 

 own deatli, ]Mr. Johnstone talked of clearing out all 

 his sires, and bidding for Stockwell at Lord Exeter's 

 sale, as the legitimate successor of the "Eaton 

 Brown ;'^ but he changed his mind, and did not live 

 long enough to regret it. 



It was no slight difficulty crossing the ford to 

 Broadholm; but Mr. John Johnstone on Queensberry, 

 the winner of a Dumfriesshire steeple-chase, was 

 quite a Trinity House pilot, and we got well across 

 near a weir, which Robinson Carr and "Sandy" had 

 done their very best to pull down, to get at an otter. 

 Arabs have quite a colony here. We had left a Minuet 

 over the water at the foot of a hunting mare, as well 

 as a yearling in a shed ; and here the cross was taken 

 the opposite way, and a grey Arab mare had an Era 

 foal, which was to be entered in the Oaks. Two 

 half- Arab ponies were also trotting away to Lockerby 

 •station, on their road to Mortlake, and Mr. John- 

 stone changed Queensberry in the evening for a 

 grey of the same cross. Shorthorns are a new 

 love; but he was not off with the old greyhound one, 

 and among a leash of seniors there were saplings by 

 Canaradzo and puppies by Master Blue Hat, But 



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