AND STIRLINGSHIRE HUNT 



Alas for Donald, och alace ! 

 His place is vacant in the chase. 

 With honour he the hunt did grace 



For nineteen year ; 

 An Icelander has ta'en his place, 



Wha keeps the rear. 



In addition to the regular members of the field, 

 there were many others who occasionally hunted 

 with the pack, and in the very neatly, carefully, 

 and regularly kept hunting diary which Colonel 

 Gillon has left, the names of several visitors are 

 recorded. Among them are those of Colonel Sir 

 David Carrick Buchanan, for many years master 

 of the Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire Hounds ; Lord 

 Eglinton, who in 1862 had begun to hunt the 

 Ayrshire country ; Colonel Greenhill Gardyne, who 

 then hunted Forfarshire and was afterwards 

 master of the Fife Hounds ; Mr Fen wick, after- 

 wards master of the Tynedale Hounds ; Mr 

 Oswald of Dunnikier ; Mr Oswald of Auchen- 

 cruive ; Lord Sommerville ; Mr Sothern, who at 

 this time was probably making his appearance on 

 the Edinburgh stage as "Lord Dundreary"; and 

 last but not least, Mr George Whyte - Melville. 

 Colonel Gardyne, without being a regular attend- 

 ant, hunted a good deal with the pack during 

 Colonel Gillon's first season, and on one occasion, 

 towards the end of the run from Dalmahoy before 

 alluded to, generously lent his hunter to Horton, 

 the huntsman, whose own horse was too much 

 distressed to go farther. Colonel Gardyne, a 

 propos of this incident, says " Horton was a very 



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