AND STIRLINGSHIRE HUNT 



the Waverley station being made by road. Thus 

 in the morning and again in the evening of the 

 days on which the east country was hunted, the 

 pack passed along Princes street, an incident 

 sufficiently remarkable, although of course the 

 traffic was not then nearly so great as it is now. 

 Owing to an attack of typhoid fever, followed by 

 blood poisoning, Mr Russel was not able to hunt 

 the hounds himself so regularly as he had intended, 

 and John Atkinson, who had been engaged as 

 kennel-huntsman on the departure of his nephew, 

 frequently carried the horn. Notwithstanding the 

 fact that the hounds were in the field sometimes 

 four days a- week, the sport shown was inferior 

 to that of the following season, when the hunting 

 days were reduced to two, with a third at the 

 master's discretion.^ The first day of regular 

 hunting was the 23rd of October (1882) at Dundas 

 Castle, " where the master had a breakfast ready 

 and all other usual ' incentives.' It was a brilliant 

 morning and a large meet — three drags and four 

 (92nd, 3rd D. G., and Mr Brown's), also a dozen 

 of carriages, and 70 to 80 horsemen. . . . The 

 master and his hounds acquitted themselves 

 admirably, and every one was pleased." ^ But 

 Major Wauchope's death on the 25th of November 

 caused a short break in the season,^ and when 

 hunting was resumed there was no sport worthy 

 of mention until the 18th of January, on which 



1 Minute-book, vol. i. p. 22 L 2 jj^j^j^^ p. 2 20. 



3 Ibid., p. 221 



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