AND STIRLINGSHIRE HUNT 



as many had ridden over it to hounds, was very 

 widely deplored. Through his love of the chase, 

 he had done much in his district to link fox-hunting 

 with agriculture, and the number of sportsmen and 

 farmers who met in the Star and Garter, Linlith- 

 gow, on the evening of the 10th of November 1899, 

 to do honour to their mutual friend, indicated the 

 good feeling subsisting between these two classes of 

 the community, as well as the high esteem in which 

 he himself was held by both. 



During the earlier half of this mastership, the 

 columns of ' Land and Water ' contained many 

 accounts of the sport which took place. All, or 

 nearly all, of these were contributed by Mr Harry 

 Armour, who under the nom-de- plume, " Palafox," 

 wrote both regularly and well. Mr Andrew Gillon, 

 when living at Cathlaw during the seasons of 1896 

 and 1897, also, helped to chronicle the work of the 

 pack ; and several articles by him, entitled "Notes 

 by Nimrod," appeared in ' The West Lothian Courier.' 

 One of these gives a very graphic description of a 

 sharp burst from Longmuir one evening in November 

 1896, after several good coverts in the Saturday 

 country had been drawn blank. " As a last resort," 

 so the Note runs, " Mr Usher gave the word for 

 Longmuir. What a glorious uncertainty there is 

 about fox-hunting ! When your spirits are at their 

 lowest and your feet at their coldest, never give 

 up hope. Mr Henderson ^ had a treat in store 



1 Mr W. ;Hom Henderson, Linlithgow, who for several seasons had 

 the Longmuir shootings. 



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