were taken away from their but you have yourselfe to blame for all. You never wrote me to take your sheep and you never wrote McLauchlan and when I got their I would not interfear with the drafting of your sheep. The sheep were all in the yard ready to take away when I got their. If you wished me to take your sheep why not write Gollan to that effect and me and then I should get your sheep properly drafted. The day they were drawing the sheep he sent John out of the yard so that he would not se which was young on their and they give you all the coarse sheep in the flock and give you the worst of the lambs. When I went to look at the sheep Gollan asked what I thought of them. I told him that their was a great many old sheep among them. His reply was they shoul[d] onley be