8 Saddle and Sirloin. 



note. " Crested Lochiel" and " Cam Ye by Athol," were 

 the only names he would ever accept from his son. 

 He said that his dogs had no luck unless they were 

 named by himself, and as the above two died from in- 

 juries at a fence, he had some grounds for his prejudice. 



His son really began the family coursing in 1841, 

 when Mr. McTurk gave him a puppy. After that 

 " Young Dalgig" always kept one ; but his father took 

 no notice whatever of the sport until 1847, when he 

 saw him with Kenmore, the dam of Dido, and con- 

 ceived a violent admiration for her. He then learnt 

 to love coursing at private meetings round home, and 

 his maiden win was a farmer's stake at Closeburn — 

 five shillings entrance and thirty runners. Dido won, 

 and followed suit at Closeburn public meeting the 

 next year. 



He first tried Canaradzo in the Dalgig meadows with 

 Mr. Hyslop's Forty-Six. If he was anxious for a trial 

 he would walk from morning till evening to have one. 

 On one occasion he and his son walked all Monday 

 and Tuesday on the hills, and did not find a hare. 

 On Wednesday they began again, and at two o'clock 

 those plucky pilgrims at last " spied her sitting." He 

 did not feel it a martyrdom, and no amount of wet 

 would make him put back. The only alloy, in his 

 mind, to these private trials was when "Jock" pro- 

 claimed the death of a doe hare. Occasionally, he 

 took an odd fit, and would run a dog three or four 

 trials in a day. Much as he loved Coodareena, he 

 would sometimes try the whole team with her, and he 

 was "as deaf as Ailsa Craig" to every expostulation 

 on the point. She was the stoutest hearted of all the 

 Scotland Yets — a sort which is either very game or very 

 soft ; and but for these severe trials she would have 

 won more than she did. As it was, she was left in 

 among the last eight with Meg in Mr. Campbell's last 

 Waterloo Cup essay ; and she ran well at Kyle in 

 the winter, after having had three litters. 



