AND STIRLINGSHIRE HUNT 



from Bellsquarry, and several from Bangour, 

 helped to make the season a satisfactory one.^ In 

 the following winter, after meeting at the Star 

 and Garter, Linlithgow, on the 14th of November 

 (1885), hounds went away on the line of a fox which 

 they did not find, but which Mr Hugh Mosman, 

 who was on foot, had winded over the road a little 

 to the south of B'ormie covert, after that had 

 been drawn. Picking up the scent they ran 

 down by Williamscraig and Belsyde and across 

 the Union canal towards Avontoun. There they 

 turned back, and skirting Belsyde, Cockleroi, and 

 the Witch craig, reached Cairnpapple from which, 

 after a short check, they ran on by the Silver- 

 mines, the Knock, Craigs, and the Byres, across 

 the Edinburgh and Bathgate road, and by the 

 Barracks and Livingstone wood to ground at 

 Howden, — seven or eight miles as the crow flies, 

 over a nice line of country.^ On the last day of 

 this season, the 24th of April, when Marchbank 

 was the fixture, the field had their work cut out 

 for them, for the burst over Kaimes hill to Meadow- 

 bank after the stout fox which jumped up in front 

 of the pack on Dalmahoy hill was but a prelim- 

 inary canter. Leaving Meadowbank behind them 

 and turning from Greenburn by Whitemoss hounds 

 settled to the line and carried it through Newlands 



' 'Edinburgh Courant,' 27th March 1885, and Hunting Diary of 

 Mr J. S. Pitman, Edinburgh. 



2 Ibid., 18th November 1885, and Hunting Diary of Mr J. S. Pitman, 

 Edinburgh. 



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