HISTORY OF THE LINLITHGOW 



not unknown to walk puppies himself. In the 

 first season of his mastership one of these happened 

 to stray from Niddrie to Edmonstone, where, through 

 a mistake, it came to an unfortunate and untimely 

 end. For the estate joiner there, an old man 

 named Alexander Glasgow, who had permission 

 to carry a gun, and was very useful in frightening 

 poachers and scaring away stray dogs, espied the 

 puppy and, firing, wounded it so badly that it 

 had to be destroyed. And the story goes that 

 on being asked how it came about, Glasgow ex- 

 plained that he had no idea it was a fox -hound; 

 that he thought it was "just a goose or some 

 gigantic bird." 



In addition to the usual members of the field, ^ 

 many of the officers of the regiments quartered 

 at Piershill and Edinburgh Castle, of the Royal 

 Artillery, and of H.M.S. Lord Warden, hunted 

 fairly regularly with the pack, and it is perhaps 

 somewhat singular that it should have been in 

 the first year of Captain Wauchope's term of office 

 that his old regiment, the Inniskilling Dragoons, 

 in which there were then still many of his former 

 comrades, was sent to Edinburgh. That it so 

 happened must have been a pleasure to him, and 

 through the proximity of the barracks at Piers- 

 hill to Niddrie he was probably enabled to see a 

 good deal of them there as well as in the hunting 

 field. 



^ A list of the subscribers, 1877-1909 inclusive, will be found in 

 Appendix V. 



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