HISTORY OF THE L. & S. HUNT 



to the Linlithgow and Stirlingshire Hounds. And 

 it was in Atkinson's house, which he named " Fox- 

 ville," on the slope of Corstorphine hill, one winter 

 afternoon, that the author's first and only meeting 

 with Stracey took place. So frail did he then seem 

 as he sat in his arm-chair by the fireside, with 

 a plaid wrapt about his knees, that it was difficult 

 to realise that he had ever possessed sufficient 

 vigour to hunt a pack of fox-hounds. It was 

 always said that a grave awaited him in the 

 Vine country beside that of his wife ; but when 

 he departed this life on the 19th of May 1895, 

 at the age of eighty -one, Atkinson buried his 

 old friend in the Grange cemetery in Edinburgh, 

 in accordance with the oft-repeated injunction, 

 "Where the tree falls, there let it lie." 



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