HISTORY OF THE LINLITHGOW 



Time gave his who-whoop, but . . . should have 

 a monument and an epitaph, and a better one 

 than this, which must serve in the meantime — 



' Who single-handed 



Killed his fox, 

 Though blind and old 



Right orthodox.' " ^ 



After the close of the season of 1840, during 

 which, as well as the immediately preceding one, 

 the hounds had again visited Forfarshire, Mr 

 Ramsay gave up the home country entirely, and 

 in the following winter hunted Forfarshire only ; 

 while the Fife Hounds, under an arrangement 

 come to through Major Shairp, visited Linlithgow- 

 shire for about five weeks in the spring, when they 

 were kennelled at Uphall. The Forfarshire country, 

 which at this time was considered one of the best 

 of those in the north, was an extensive one, and 

 embraced much of Lord Panmure's property, upon 

 which were situated most of the favourite coverts. 

 " From one end of the country to the other was 

 fully eighty miles, and it is a precious memory 

 with Tom [Rintoul] that one week they 'hunted 

 it down,' and killed four brace." ^ But before 

 another summer had passed, the troubles at home 

 had either ceased altogether or diminished very 

 considerably, for in 1843 the hounds were again 

 hunting the home country, and also the Carnwath 

 country in Lanarkshire and Peeblesshire. Sport, 



^ ' Sporting Magazine,' August 1839. 

 2 'Field and Fern' (South), 1865, p. 54. 



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