AND STIRLINGSHIRE HUNT 



and Morton Hall, by Lothian Hall, Boghall and 

 Woodhouselee, as far as the Logan House water.^ 

 Four years later (1847), also, Mr Ramsay got 

 leave from his Grace to draw the Penicuik coverts,^ 

 and when the Fife Hounds were sold to Sir 

 Richard Sutton and went to the Quorn kennels, 

 in 1848, he arranged to hunt the west of Fife 

 district in place of the East Lothian country, 

 which was then resigned. 



It was probably about this time that the hounds 

 had the fine run in Stirlingshire mentioned by The 

 Druid,^ " from West Craigs be3^ond Bathgate, 

 eighteen miles straight, and killed in a wash- 

 house near Denny." Mr Forbes of Callendar, the 

 present master of the Hurworth Hounds, says 

 that, as far as he can remember, the fixture on 

 this occasion was Armadale toll-bar, that hounds 

 found at West Craiofs, ran towards Armadale and 

 back to West Craigs. Then they went away 

 across the moors to Ellrig, ran on as if for the 

 woods at Bonnymuir, and thence towards Larbert, 

 eventually killing in a building rather nearer 

 Castle Cary than Denny. Mr Forbes asked Rin- 

 toul if it was the finest run he had ever seen. 

 Rintoul said "No"; he recollected two better — 

 one over Tinto, when he rode the Rocket horse,* 

 and another from Hallyards, near Kirkliston. 



1 Papers at Dalkeith Hovise. ^ ibid. 



3 ' Field and Fern ' (South), 1865, p. 55. 



* " For nine seasons the Rocket horse was Tom Rintoul's crack, and 

 he rode him three times in one day over the Lead hills near Tinto, and 

 killed three foxes."— TTc^e 'Field and Fern' (South), 1865, p. 55. 



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