AND STIRLINGSHmE HUNT 



Although the Hunt had now ceased to exist 

 except as a club, it was destined to be resurrected 

 at no very distant date, a circumstance which, 

 could he have survived to see it, would doubtless 

 have rejoiced Mr Ramsay, in whose thoughts the 

 hunting of the country had filled so large a place. 

 Meantime, he was not forgotten, and the members, 

 still meeting at Linlithgow and at Stirling, did 

 "drink in solemn silence the memory of him whose 

 loss was a serious one for all who had the pleasure 

 of knowing him." ^ Meantime also — between the 

 temporary cessation of the Hunt and its revival — 

 the country did not long remain vacant, and after 

 the lapse of a short interval, it was wakened by 

 the music of a pack of fox-hounds, which at that 

 time was, as it is at the present day, second to 

 none in Scotland, controlled by a sportsman of 

 renown, and guided by a huntsman of considerable 

 celebrity. 



1 'Sporting Magazine,' May 1825. 



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