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field near tlie house, with the hound " Yeoman" at 

 his heels, to show us the Giraffe mare with the last 

 drop of the old horse at her foot. It had been duly- 

 named '*^Terrona/' and bids fair to be a Border 

 gallant in days to come. With a view to showing 

 its paces he rattled on his hat like a tambou- 

 rine, and then called up the rest of the Yeomans 

 from the long meadows with quite the chest-notes of 

 a Mario. The Cheviot gimmers which came second 

 to the Moodlaw pen at Kelso were in the field, but 

 his son John looks to them. " Terrona^s^^ heart is 

 in the horse-ring and the saddle ; and, as he observes 

 with much seeming satisfaction, he has ''' been left 

 twenty-two times for dead with strange horses." 

 Being once safely beyond the clad score, it seems 

 quite reasonable that he should now '' put in for two 

 dozen." 



Somehow, he always recovers in a most marvellous 

 manner ; and his reel with the late Marquis of Queens- 

 berry at ^^ The Crown" — when Joe Graham was quite 

 theBeauNash of the evening, and in that capacity kept 

 the two fiddlers so ably up to the mark that they 

 played '^ Bonny Dundee" one-and-thirty times — ^is 

 talked of yet in Langholm. His spirits never fla^, 

 and a peep at his face when a blood-horse is the 

 theme is like a sunbeam on a frosty day. What 

 a crack we had that night of every Cumberland 

 or Border horse we had ever heard of or seen 

 going down Stanwix brow each Saturday in our 

 schoolboy days. He gave us them all, from Bang- 



