HISTOHY OF THE LINLITHGOW 



have done his duty towards the Hunt, it may be 

 concluded that his wife, who carried on the concern 

 after his death, practically undertook the entire 

 charge of it. He had under him, as whipper-in, 

 a lad named Andrew Hichardson, who is described 

 as "dashing" and "straightforward," and from 

 whom, no doubt, he received much help both in 

 and out of the kennel. In the field, during the 

 latter days of his career, he, although somewhat 

 slow, was generally "there or thereabouts" at 

 the close of the run, especially when mounted on 

 his old ball-faced gelding by Dux, one of a race 

 of stayers for which no day was too long and of 

 which there were then several in the Hunt.-^ 



When Forrester passed away in or about the 

 year 1805, the huntsman's place was filled by 

 Robert Burton, who is stated to have been im- 

 ported from some popular Yorkshire Hunt. The 

 Records of the Fife Fox-Hounds ^ mention a Robert 

 Burton as having been huntsman to the Fife 

 Hounds in 1803, and it is more than likely that 

 he and Forrester's successor were one and the 

 same, a season in Yorkshire having elapsed be- 

 tween his leaving Fife and coming to the Lin- 

 lithgow and Stirlingshire country. Burton is 

 alluded to as "a very dashing impertinent fellow 

 — a divil to ride and a divil to swear," and it 



1 'Sporting Magazine,'' May 1825. 



^ ' Records of the Fife Fox-Hounds,' by Lieut.-Col. Babington, 1883, 

 pp. 14 and 15. 



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