HISTORY OF THE LINLITHGOW 



place was filled, Mr Falconar - Stewart of Binny 

 agreeing to undertake the secretarial work, and 

 the late Mr W. Horn Henderson, Linlithgow, 

 the collection of the subscription.^ 



The spell of good sport which characterised the 

 last year of Mr Bussel's mastership remained un- 

 broken, and if less remarkable in Mr Menzies' first 

 season, it was far from being so during his second 

 and third. The scribes w^ho now occupied the 

 places of Mr Barstow, Mr Blackwood, and Mr 

 Home, — among whom were Mr Hugh Martin and 

 Mr Brandford (" Horningtoft "), — had therefore 

 ample opportunities ; and that they made good use 

 of them is evident from the number of articles 

 descriptive of the doings of the pack which 

 appeared in the columns of ' The Edinburgh Cour- 

 ant,' ' The Scotsman,' and other newspajoers during 

 the seasons of 1884, 1885, and 1886. A long 

 draw without satisfactory result followed the meet 

 at Dreghorn on the 3rd of March 1885, but the 

 coverts at Bavelaw maintained their reputation in 

 holding a fox which led hounds over a wide area 

 by Buteland, Belstane, Ormiston, East Calder, 

 and Calderhall, and across the Almond to Drum- 

 shoreland — rather more than six miles straight — 

 before he was put to ground near Amondell.^ On 

 the 24th of the same month there was another 

 hunt from Bavelaw, this time by Listonshiels to 

 Curriehill, while a good run from Kinneil, another 



^ Minute-book, vol. i. p. 239a. 



2 ' The Scotsman,' 5th March 1885. 



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