AND SimLINGSHlRE HUNT 



the Hunt horses being stabled in the yard 

 adjoining. 



The country hunted embraced, in addition to 

 the counties of Linhthgow and StirHng, the west 

 of Fife district and a part of Dumfriesshire, which 

 included or consisted of Mr Hope - Johnstone's 

 property in Annandale. The whole of this area 

 was hunted from the kennels at Bonnytoun, with 

 the exception of the western part of Stirlingshire, 

 which was overtaken from temporary quarters in 

 the county town, and the west of Fife and 

 Dumfriesshire districts, which were hunted from 

 Torryburn and Lochmaben respectively. In the 

 broken season of 1824 Knight killed seven and 

 a half brace of foxes, in his first whole season 

 twent}^ - eight brace, and in the succeeding one 

 thirty brace, the hounds hunting three days 

 a-week. 



Although Mr Johnston and Mr Gillon were 

 joint - masters, the former took the chief charge, 

 and when he was in the field the latter did not 

 interfere. Neither of them carried a hunting 

 horn, but both wore the white collar in virtue 

 of their office. After hunting the country for a 

 period of three years over and above the broken 

 season of 1824, they tendered their resignation, 

 and the mastership was offered to Major Norman 

 Shairp, younger of Houstoun.^ He, however, to 

 the great disappointment of his friends and brother 

 sportsmen, declined the honour,^ and the manage- 



1 'Sporting Magazine,' April 1828. ^ Il.>id. 



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