AND STIRLINGSHIRE HUNT 



some hounds which the Hunt had purchased from 

 him. 



The picture containing the portrait of Granger, 

 painted by Douglas in 1813,^ points to the fact 

 that the hounds were then still wanting in bone, 

 and harrier-like, although in character more nearly- 

 approaching the modern foxhound than those rep- 

 resented by Nasmyth. Yet it matters little what 

 improvement in breeding had been effected at this 

 stage, for in the following year the hounds were 

 sold, and were replaced, on the renewal of the 

 hunting establishment in 1825, by an entirely 

 distinct pack. This, coming as it did from the 

 kennel of the Earl of Kintore, and consisting, as 

 his list for 1824^ indicates, partly of hounds which 

 had fallen to him on the division of the united 

 Fife and Forfarshire packs, and partly of drafts 

 from various well-known kennels in England, was 

 probably made up of hounds of a better class than 

 those which had constituted the previous pack. 



It seems possible that when Mr Johnston and 

 Mr W. D. Gillon resigned their mastership in 1828, 

 the fifth Earl of Hopetoun may have purchased the 

 hounds and offered them as a gift to the gentlemen 

 of the counties of Linlithgow and Stirling,^ but it 

 cannot be stated authoritatively that this offer, if 

 made, was accepted, nor is it by any means clear 

 that either Mr Hay or Mr W. R. Ramsay, on 



^ Vide illustration, p. 64. 



2 Appendix to ' Notitia Venatica ' by R. T. Vyner, 1842. 



■'' Vide Appendix IV. 



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