Another dry frosty day : very cold. David1 was away shooting + I saw some of his town cases. Walked to Curror Street, Mill Street, Croft House, Ettrickhaugh Road [and] Ettrick Road. Distributed my Communion Cards in afternoon + found everybody at tea. Dined at Elmpark.2 Miss Wallace3 there. Had rubber at Whist.4 Mrs Mack + Dummy won against Wallace + me. Fine clear night.
1 David Charteris ‘Dav.’ Graham (1889-1963), M.B., Ch.B., medical practitioner and Dr Muir’s business partner.
2 Elm Park, Selkirk, home of Dr Muir’s friend Agnes Mackintosh née Watson, formerly Harper (1859-1946).
3 Miss Jane Wallace (1874-), nurse to the Roberts children, Dr Muir’s grandchildren [see diary entries for 6 April 1915, 22 October 1916 and 7 April 1918 and 1911 Census]; she was born at Langbarns, Tongland, Kirkcudbrightshire.
4 This appears to have been a form of Whist with a three players and a dummy, rather than Bridge where a fourth player sits out play when his or her hand has been deemed to be dummy.
[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/26, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1923]
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