AND STIRLINGSHIRE HUNT 



1865. On his death-bed he left to the present Sir 

 Herbert Maxwell a silver hunting-horn, which he 

 apologised to the late Sir William for not leaving to 

 him, saying, by way of excuse, that the horn would 

 be of more use to his son, who was " beginning a 

 sporting career ! " ^ 



What happy days those immediately following 

 the 28th of October (1839) must have been at 

 Barnton, for was not Lanercost's victory at New- 

 market an accomplished fact ! " His four-year-old 

 labours that September and October were equal 

 to those of a Hercules . . . [but] as his five 

 races had been mere exercise gallops, and he 

 seemed to get tone every day, I'Anson deter- 

 mined to put his head Heath - wards for the 

 Cambridgeshire on the 28th. Between Dumfries 

 and Annan his troubles began, by the breaking 

 down of one of the horses of his three - wheel 

 van,^ which was hardly big enough for him 

 when he was travelling night and day. For 

 the last seventy miles he grew so weary that he 

 stood on his toes with his heels up against the 

 door, and propping his loin as he could. Hence 

 when he reached Newmarket he was so paralysed 



1 On this horn, which is still at Monreith, the following words are 

 inscribed : " Presented to Mr Christopher Scott, Huntsman to the 

 Linlithgow and Stirlingshire Hounds, by a number of gentlemen 

 desirous of recording their sense of his merit and their approbation 

 of his conduct. August 6th 1836." 



2 The last van used, stood for many years after the purpose for 

 which it was constructed had ceased to exist, inside the Barnton gate 

 opposite North Clermiston farm. It had foxir wheels. 



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