AND STIRLINGSHIRE HUNT 



may be given. On the 22nd of November, hounds 

 ran nicely from the coverts on the Braes o' Mar by 

 Longmuir and B'ormie to Lochcote, — a point of 

 some five miles, — Beavan and the first whipper-in 

 lying well with them. Miss Mackenzie, the late Mr 

 W. J. Drybrough, and Mr C. T. Menzies a field or 

 so behind, and the rest " nowhere " ; while, on the 

 6th of the following month, much patient work 

 on the part of hounds and huntsman Avas dis- 

 played in a slow hunt from the same coverts, the 

 line taken lying by Little Ochiltree, Longmuir, 

 and Wairdlaw to the Witch craig, and thence to 

 Bangour. After the coming of the new year, on 

 the 10th of January, there was "a bright thirty 

 minutes from Ormiston gorse " ; on the 10th of 

 March, sixty minutes of the best, from Cairn- 

 papple to Longmuir and from that nearly straight 

 to Wallhouse craigs, with as good a cry as there 

 had been all season; and on the 21st of January 

 and the 24th of March, two hard days from fix- 

 tures at Uphall inn/ Thus the season of 1887 

 passed as many others have, without any real 

 "red-letter" days, but nevertheless with much 

 genuine sport, sometimes in a good country, 

 sometimes in a bad, and often in a rough one. 



On the 17th of June 1888, just four years from 

 the time when the Hunt had been deprived of the 

 services of Mr Home, it received another serious 



1 'Horse and Hound,' 26th November and 10th December 1887; 

 28th January, 17th March, and 31st March 1888 ; and Hunting 

 Diaries of Mr J. S. Pitman, Edinburgh, and the author. 



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