HISTORY OF THE LINLITHGOW 



papple, and thence, at a great pace, by Nethermuir 

 and Bridgecastle to Over Hillhouse — about a mile 

 to the south-east of Gowanbank — where the chase 

 ended in darkness.^ 



It was a fox well hunted through a difficult 

 country — from E-avelrig by Dalmahoy, Riccarton, 

 Juniper Green, and Baberton — which Morgan 

 handled at The Farm, Colinton, on the 18th Feb- 

 ruary (1909), and the mask which now hangs at 

 Golfhall serves to remind him of the good work 

 done by Farmer and Furrier on that occasion. 

 Although the hills were white with snow when 

 hounds met at Longcroft on the 16th of March, the 

 sun shone brightly as they ran from the Flints over 

 Bonnytoun hill to Sunnyside, and from that — the 

 pace improving as they ran — by the Binns, the 

 western shore at Hopetoun, and Philpstoun House 

 to the banks of the canal at Fawnspark, where, led 

 by Dauntless (1905), they pulled down as game a 

 fox as huntsman could wish to hunt.^ On the 23rd 

 of the same month there was another run from 

 Williamston covert, this time to the Wester Cairn, 

 and although the chase virtually ended when that 

 was reached, Mr Gillon, who kept to the right-of- 

 way track, was fortunate enough to get in touch 

 with hounds near Baddingsgill and so follow them 

 for a mile or more in the direction of Carlops.^ 

 But these runs to the Pentlands, of which there 

 were perhaps an unusual number between the years 



1 ' The Scotsman,' 4th January 1909. 



2 Ibid., 17th March 1909. ^ Ibid., 25th March 1909. 



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