HISTORY OF THE LINLITHGOW 



Sir Alexander Gibson -Maitland of Cliftonhall, Mr 

 John Wood, a Leith merchant, Lord George 

 Bentinck — on near side of table, — Mr Ram- 

 say, Mr John Tod, nick-named " Toddy Boy," Mr 

 Walter M'Culloch of Ardwall, Mr William Sharpe, 

 Hoddam, Mr Inglis of Torsonce, the poet, Mr 

 George Dunlop, nick-named " Gogar," and Captain 

 the Hon. James Sandilands — in doorway. On the 

 wall hangs a card intimating that Mr Ramsay's 

 Hounds wall meet on Monday, at Drumshorelan 

 Moor ; on Tuesday, at Torphichen Bridge ; on 

 Thursday, at Riccarton Wood ; and on Saturday, 

 at Broxburn. 



Although Mr Ramsay may be looked upon as 

 having been a resident proprietor, spending his 

 money in the country hunted, it would seem that 

 he was not, at this period, afforded the support 

 which might naturally have been considered due 

 to him. One proprietor appears to have objected 

 to have his lands ridden over ; another to have 

 destroyed foxes and taken every means to spoil 

 sport ; while the farmers were not over warm in 

 the good cause, and satisfactory walks for puppies 

 were somewhat scarce. The season of 1837 was 

 the last in which the Fife Hounds hunted For- 

 farshire, and Mr Ramsay, influenced no doubt by 

 the state of matters then existing in his own 

 country, in the following season, Scott's last, 

 took the hounds into that county for a time, 

 hunting most probably from the kennels near the 

 loch at Forfar, which the Fife Hounds had pre- 



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