AND STIRLINGSHIRE HUNT 



their Dagon (1900) stood out promioently for two 

 seasons as a working hound, being second only in 

 his performance in the field to the home-bred 

 Hostile (1902). 



Owing to the want of continuity in the earlier 

 lists, it is difficult to trace the pedigrees of the 

 hounds, but there can be little doubt that there 

 is not now any blood in the kennel which goes 

 back in it prior to the union with East Lothian, 

 and that the Lothians' list for 1872 contains the 

 name of the last survivor ^ of the previous Lin- 

 lithgow and Stirlingshire pack. 



Before concluding this chapter, a reference to 

 the various kennels occupied from time to time 

 will not be out of place. The earliest known are 

 *' the Doghouses," which were built by Sir William 

 Cunynghame on the farm of Lethem between 

 Uphall and Midcalder, in or about the year 1775. 

 These were probably used until the end of his 

 mastership, or until the committee of management, 

 which was afterwards appointed, began to act ; but 

 however this may have been, in the year 1797, the 

 hounds were kennelled at Linlithgow, where they 

 appear to have been kept until 1806. From 1806 

 to 1814, the period during which the management 

 rested with Lord Elphinstone, Mr George Ramsay, 

 and Mr William Murray, kennels at Laurieston, near 

 Falkirk, were used as well as those at Linhthgow ; 



1 Lively (1868) by Lucifer (1862) — Shropshire Bonnylass (1865). 

 Lucifer by Belvoir Lucifer (1852) — Liberty (1854). Liberty by 

 Auditor — Luna. Auditor by Dreadnought — Active. 



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