HISTORY OF THE LINLITHGOW 



Earl of Wemyss, then Lord Elcho, to whom the 

 Duke, at that time, had given up East Lothian.^ 

 The home country and the Dumbartonshire and 

 Mid-Lothian districts were worked from the Laurie- 

 ston and Barnton kennels, the Berwickshire country 

 probably from kennels at Duns Castle, and the 

 Lanarkshire district from kennels at Newmains. 

 The hounds hunted three and sometimes four days 

 a - week, and many long and severe runs are re- 

 corded. Early in the season of 1830, when in 

 Berwickshire, they had a hard day from Preston 

 near Duns, and accounted for a brace of foxes. 

 After what is described as having been "a beauti- 

 ful burst of eight miles without a check across 

 the hill country," at the end of which the fox 

 took refuge in the dairy at Cockburn and was 

 killed, Scott proceeded to draw the covert at 

 Prestonhill. From this a good fox went away, 

 and hounds ran well over the Preston Stan- 

 shiel, winding round the base of the hill, and 

 pointing for the low country. When near Cock- 

 burn mill, however, they swung left-handed, and 

 continued by Preston towards Lintlaw. There, 

 the fox being headed by some ploughmen, they 

 again swung left-handed, went on over Lintlaw 

 hill, through Buncle wood, crossed the road a 

 little to the east of Marygold, and bending 

 slightly to the right, reached the strong covert at 

 Greenburn. There was now a burning scent, and 

 the pace was consequently tremendous. Leaving 



^ Papers at Dalkeith House. 



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