HISTORY OF THE LINLITHGOW 



hunters, and the steadiest and most liberal sup- 

 porter of the pack, breathed his last. By the 

 death of the seventh Earl of Hopetoun and 

 first Marquis of Linlithgow, the Linlithgow and 

 Stirlingshire Hunt has lost a friend whose place 

 will not readily be filled, the farmer, a kind and 

 sympathetic landlord, and the country, a man 

 whom it will mourn widely, deeply, and sincerely 

 for many a day to come." ^ 



The cub-hunting of that year (1908) was a most 

 satisfactory one in every respect ; and so many 

 were the good runs which occurred during the 

 regular season, that it is difficult to decide which 

 was the best.^ One of the earliest was a fast sixty 

 minutes all over grass, on the 7th of November, 

 and hounds were only handled once between 

 Bangour, close to which the run began, and Muir- 

 avonside, where the fox saved his brush by going 

 to ground.^ Two good hunting runs, each with 

 a point of some six miles, followed almost imme- 

 diately, — the first taking place from a fixture at 

 Wallhouse on the 21st of the month, when hounds 

 traversed a nice line of country between Cairn- 

 papple and the coverts at Three-mile-town ; ^ and 

 the second on the 12th of December when, after 

 meeting at Muiravonside, they pursued a fox found 



,^' 'The Scotsman,' 2nd March 1908 — from article contributed by the 

 author. 



2 In this season the number of foxes killed was 32^ brace — one well 

 above the average. 



2 'The Scotsman,' 9th November 1908. 



4 ' The Field,' 28th November 1908. 



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