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"If you will pass your life with birds and Sowers, try to raise the finest 

 turnips and breed the largest fowls." 



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Woodliouselees — The late Miss Rachel Bell — Ecclefechan — A Day at 

 Knockhill; its Horses and Greyhounds — Iloddom Castle — Iluntin^^ 

 llecollections of Joe Graham — The Dumfriesshire Kennels— Blood 

 Royal in his Barn — Mr. Beattie and his Stake Nets — The Solway 

 riow — The Red Kirk Herd — Prom Holme Eden to Kensington. 



?^||e stopped short of tliose double turnpikes on each 

 *^^ side of the Border boundary, which try the 

 traveller's patience so sorely, and renewed our ac- 

 quaintance with Woodhouselees. The farm, which 

 belongs to the Dukeof Buccleuch, iiasbeen occupied 

 by successive generations of the Bell family since 

 1707. ^Tith the century the present Mr. James 

 Bell's father entered on it. He was a leading agri- 

 culturist in his day, and an active director of the 

 Highland Society for several 3'ears. After his death 

 in 1832, his son George held the farm for four 

 years, and then transferred it to his sister Bebecca, 

 who inherited all the eountrj^ tastes of the family, 

 and who occupied it until her death in July, '61. 

 James Little, the grieve, v.'hohnsbeen nearly forty 



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