AND STIRLINGSHIRE HUNT 



ston, and on the 22nd of December from the moss 

 below the Inch near Bathgate to Calder wood — 

 the distance as the crow flies, in each case, being 

 between five and six miles ; while on the sixth of 

 the month last mentioned, when Alderstone was 

 the fixture, they worked steadily for two hours 

 and a half before being whipped off the line near 

 Kiprig, on the country becoming unrideable.^ A 

 bye-day from Muiravonside on the 12th of January 

 (1905) resulted in a hunt over an unusual line, 

 with a point of seven miles, for the fox which 

 was holloaed away from the Haining wood in 

 Stirlingshire was pursued into Hopetoun territory. 

 Breaking covert towards the farm of Avonbank, 

 hounds swung right-handed by Waulkmilton and 

 Manuel to Woodcockdale on the Linlithgowshire 

 side of the river, and from that hunted through 

 Belsyde, Williamscraig and Preston to the base 

 of Cockleroi. Then they went on over the farms 

 of Hillhouse, Cauldhame, and Riccarton, by Nancy's 

 hill and Kingscavil, and across the Linlithgow road 

 and the Union canal to Kingfield ; but, again 

 swinging right-handed, ran through Sunnyside, past 

 Merrylees and over the Binns hill to the western 

 shore in Hopetoun where, the earths being open, 

 the fox saved his brush.^ Before the end of the 

 season, on the 14th of March, there was another 

 hunt over an unusual line, since after running 

 from Cousland covert, in which they found, to 



1 'The Scotsman,' 8th December 1904. 



2 Ibid., 13th January 1904. 



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