AND STIRLINGSHIKE HUNT 



man who was sitting or standing upon it, " What's 

 on the other side ? ", that The Dream, who never 

 hesitated an instant, was in the air before his owner 

 received the reply, " Ye canna jump here," and that 

 after their fall horse and rider picked themselves 

 up at once, and went on to the finish. 



Before the season ended, however, there was a 

 harder day than the one just described — perhaps 

 the hardest in Captain Cheape's mastership up to 

 the date on which it took place, the 9th of March 

 (1889) — since hounds ran almost continuously, and 

 never slowly, for the space of three hours and ten 

 minutes, although they changed foxes more than 

 once. Cathlaw was the fixture, and the hunt began 

 at Longmuir, whence hounds ran by Bangour, 

 Drumcross, Craigs and Limefield to BallencriefF, 

 which they reached in thirty-five minutes time. 

 There they flashed over the line, but recovering it, 

 carried it through Cairnpapple, and after a turn 

 by the Bishopbrae strips, ran back to within a 

 couple of fields of West Bangour, many of the field 

 having ere this had to cry " Enough " ! Turning 

 back through Bangour, the fox was viewed re- 

 peatedly as he led hounds by the Silvermines, Craig- 

 mailling, and Wairdlaw to B'ormie, from which, 

 finding no shelter, he was pursued to Longmuir, 

 and from that again, with the pace undiminished, 

 by the Wilderness strip and over much of the line 

 taken in the morning to Drumcross, where hounds 

 were stopped.^ 



1 ' Horse and Hound,' 16th March 1889. 

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