AND STIRLINGSHIRE HUNT 



Freelands ; Mr Kerr, The Bloom ; Mr Lesslie, Bog- 

 hall ; Mr Ralph, The Park ; Mr Reid, The Haining ; 

 Mr John Stodart, Bangour ; Mr Wilson, Gateside ; 

 Mr Thomas Young, Oatridge ; and Mr James Young, 

 B'ormie. 



Mr James Young, better known by the name of 

 his farm, was quite a celebrity in the Hunt, and 

 at this time had been a follower of the pack for 

 nearly forty years. Being now (1867) seventy- 

 four years of age, his hunting days may be said 

 to have been numbered, and his friends in the 

 field realising this, seized an opportunity and had 

 the photograph here reproduced taken before it was 

 too late to do so. In this picture old B'ormie 

 appears mounted on his wonderful pony Donald, 

 which he had purchased from Mr Paris at Cockleroi 

 as a three - year - old, just twenty years before. 

 Donald was almost as well known and as great 

 a character as his master, and there are many 

 anecdotes told of him. One day when hunting, 

 the hounds ran straight through one of those old 

 overgrown thorn hedges which are still to be 

 found in the country. This was at least seven 

 or eight feet in height, and the field were com- 

 pelled to ride round, but B'ormie, dismounting, 

 crept through a hole in it near the roots, and 

 Donald, laying himself down like a dog, followed 

 suit, whereby he and his owner saved a consider- 

 able detour and had hounds all to themselves for 

 a time. When Mrs Young died and the friends 

 of the family were assembled in the farmhouse 



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