HISTORY OF THE LINLITHGOW 



burn to Woodend at Hopetoun, where the fox 

 made good his escape.^ In the following week, 

 on the 10th of January, after meeting at Brad- 

 shaw in very windy weather, there was a good 

 run with only one short check, from Bellsquarry 

 by Bankton, Calder glen, Midcalder, Calderhall, 

 Ormiston, Boll o' Bear, and Dalmahoy hill, and 

 across the railway below Ravelrig to Dalmahoy 

 wood, where scent failed. The point is stated 

 as being about nine miles — seven would seem to 

 be more accurate — and the time about an hour 

 and a quarter.^ Hopetoun House was the fixture 

 on the 11th of February, and after a good gallop 

 of an hour over the grass between it and the Binns 

 with blood at the finish, hounds ran fast for fifty 

 minutes from Longmuir by Broomieknowes, B'ormie 

 and the Witch craig back to Longmuir. Amongst 

 those who were there to see were Lady Estella 

 Hope and Miss Bussel, both of whom, it is stated, 

 " went remarkably well," Colonel Anstruther 

 Thomson, at that time master of the Fife Hounds, 

 and Mr Bandolph Wemyss, then master of the 

 Burton.^ 



In his second season, that of 1882, Mr Bussel 

 frequently visited the East Lothian country, which 

 had become vacant in the previous year, and when 

 he did so, the hounds were generally trained from 

 Edinburgh, the journey between the kennels and 



1 ' The Scotsman,' 5th January 1882. 



2 'Edinburo-h Courant,' 13th January 1882. 



3 Ibid., 14th February 1882. 



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