Mostly About. Scotland: Everyone in the North or Reading of It: King's Generous Example: Alarming Vital Statistics From Our Own London, Aug. 11.
Everyone who can has gone north to Scotland. The exodus is greater than usual and the grouse prospects are fully up to standard. The rest of us who cannot go read all about enviously.
The Scottish season has started much sooner than usual this year, 60 many of the Scottish folk who went north for the Court at Holyocd and the Highland Show having decided to stay on instead of returning for Goodwood and Cowes. Now, for two months, life consists of salmon, grouse, Scotch mist and peat fires, till the time comes round once more for the Highland gatherings and balls. One or two of the smaller gatherings, like the Forfar james and the Gordon Castle Gathering, come carly in the season, but the first big affair is the Aboyne Games and Ball the ight before the Braemar Gathering. In the whole of Scotland there are only about 13 counties which have a ball of any kind, and these include the Highland Gathering balls and the"Wostern Meeting. Instead of being spread out over Avgust and September, these all re crammed, for some unknown reason, into one fortnight. Some even clash, Any foolish enough to attempt to go the round in a fort. night would find themselves shattered wrecks before the end, for nowhere else, except perhaps' at May Week, has one the energy to dance till seven in the morning, as often is done at Oban and Inverness!
No one who has danced at Oban, in the Argyllshire Gathering Hall, the walls ave hung with the of all the West Highland and come out after the ball was over to find the sun shining on the hills of Kerrara and Mull ever will be able to The In-vernes balls perhaps the most important, as the King is one of the three patrons of the Northern Meeting (the other two are the Mackintosh and Sir Hector Munro of Foulis) and among other members are the Duke of Sutherland, Lord Cawdor, Lord Lovat, the Macdonald (Lord of the Jaden)' and Cameron of Lochiel. The Navy usually is very mach to fore here, as. the Gathering nearly always coincides with the annual visit of the Fleet to Invergordon.
The great tenture of the Perth balls is the "Perth Medley," an extraordinary dance, half reel, half country dance, which is done at the Perth Hunt Ball half-way through the evening by the principal Perth. shire landowners and their. womenfolk, led by the Duke of Athol, Hunt coats are not worn, a8, of course, these balls are not hunt balls in the proper sense of the term. Perthshire never has been a hunt. again, and they did a highly success. ful week's trading.
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