AND STIRLINGSHIRE HUNT 



Greenburn on their right, and passing close to 

 Warlawbank, they drove forward towards Swans- 

 field, and thence up the glen of the Eye water 

 nearly to Houndwood inn. Crossing the water a 

 little below Horslie, they attained the Brockholes, 

 and heartened on by Scott's cheer, ran into their 

 fox in the the midst of a flock of sheep.^ Although 

 the point appears to have been little more than 

 five miles, the distance covered could not have 

 been less than from twelve to fourteen. In the 

 home country, also, there was sport. On the 28th 

 of February, after meeting at Riccarton in Mid- 

 Lothian, a good hunt took place from Bonnington 

 plantation, from which hounds went away north- 

 wards towards Dundas, but turning reached Norton, 

 and eventually ran to ground near Riccarton.^ On 

 the 5th of the following month Calder wood pro- 

 vided a fox which stood up before the pack for 

 some ten miles, the line lying over the rough 

 grass country between Midcalder and the Cairn 

 hills, the pace being tremendous, and without a 

 moment's check. ^ 



Mr Ramsay's second season was characterised 

 by brilliant sport, and it was generally admitted 

 that the Linlithgow and Stirlingshire had a 

 greater number of fine runs, particularly in the 

 Duns country, than any of the other packs in 

 Scotland and, moreover, scarcely ever failed to kill 

 their fox."^ Although the veins of sport which 



^ 'Sporting Magazine,' April 1831. ^ Ibid. 



3 Ibid. * Ibid., April 1833. 



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