CONTENTS. Ill 



TOii TO SiMEHIESS. 



The Black Dog of Tain — A Jockey Club Wanderer on Moricli Mhor— 

 Ross-shire Tod-hunters — The Crofters — Flocks in Easter Eoss — From 

 Tain to Dingwall— Coiil Cottage — The Black Isle — Belmaduthy — 

 The Muir of Ord — The Caledonian Boots — Highland Society's ShoAVs 

 — Inverness Character Fair — Hugh Snowie's — Stags' Heads — Laggan 

 Cottage — Nairnshire — Lord Cawdor's Old Scotch Ilock — Kildruinmie 

 and Lochdhu— The late Ilillhead Herd— The Witches' Heath. 



The haunts of St. John — Morayshire Sellers — "Homed Beasts" — 

 Lack of Breeders — Feeding Stock — Mutton for London — Sheep 

 I'arming — Morayshire Feeders — The Forres Fat Show — Altyre Stock 

 — The Balnaferry Herd — From Forres to Elgin — Pluskardene Abbey 

 Bargains — ^^Vester Alves and Ardgay — The Story of the Buchan 

 Hero — Elgin — The Spey Fisheries — The late Duke of Richmond — 

 Gordon Castle — Its Breed of Setters — Its Flocks and Shorthorn 

 Herds. 



A ride from Fochabers to Aberdeen — Back to Orbliston — A Shooting 

 box— The Mulben Herd— The Pig Trade pf Banffshire— The Port- 

 soy Cartsire Stud — Clydesdales — Banffshire Shorthorn Beginnings — 

 The Rettie Herd— Mr. Rannie's Leicester Flock — The Montbletton 

 Herd— The late Mr. Grant Duff— His Catalogue Notes— The Forglen 

 Breed of Cows — Mr. Lumsden's Herefords — Hereford Crosses — The 

 Kinnellar Herd — The Sittyton Herd — Udny and Jamie Fleeman. 



