[224] The following advertisement, inserted in the _Edinburgh Courant_
of August 1, 1754, illustrates the above in a striking manner: ‘If
any person has lost a LARGE SOW, let them call at the house of Robert
Fiddes, gardener to Lord Minto, over against the Earl of Galloway’s, in
the Horse Wynd, where, upon proving the property, paying expenses and
damages done by the said sow, they may have the same restored.’
[225] Lord Lindsay’s _Lives of the Lindsays_, iii. 190.