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...Captain Petry for $3,675. Degomme, which won the Guards point-to-point for the Prince, went for $1,730 to Victor Emanuel, a U. S. sportsman who hunts frequently at Melton Mowbray. Another American, Mrs. Adamson, who hunts with the Quorn, got a beautiful hunter, Lady Doon, for $1,750. One horse, Just an Idea, the Prince could not bear to part with, and it was withdrawn. The sale brought $20,000 in all, a ridiculous sum as U. S. prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Under the Hammer | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...that Ayrshire yokel, Rabbie Burns. Rabble's fairly weel ken't the day in the literary world, some hunner and forty year efter his first lines appeared in prent. The Faem o' the author o' "the gaping Ayrshire yokels" should gang thunnerin' doon the ages for five hunner year at least. Anither writer chiel, that foonded the city o' Gait, Ontario, and hauds a place in the latest edition o' Wabster's International Dictionary, some 90 year after his daith, was a "gaping Ayrshire yokel," tae. An' Dr. McCosh, President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Secret | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

...Midgets vs. Brookline Gymnasium A. A. Midgets.--Won by B. A. A. (J. Doon, E. Ryan, J. Billings, L. Higgins); second, Brookline Gymnasium A. A. (A. Graves, C. Pree, M. Lahee, M. Pendergast). Time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WINTER CARNIVAL A SUCCESS | 2/24/1911 | See Source »

...selections will include "An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard," "John Gilpin's Ride," "Mary Morrison," "The Banks and Braes of Bonny Doon," "My Love is Like a Red Red Rose," and "John Anderson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Copeland's Reading Tonight. | 3/13/1900 | See Source »

HOWARD ATHENAEUM. - "Denny Doon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Amusements. | 11/21/1885 | See Source »

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