HISTORY OF THE LINLITHGOW 



are Avithin his reach. The love of the chase which 

 old B'ormie possessed has descended to his grandson, 

 Mr James Young, Linlithgow, who, Mr J, G. B. 

 Henderson, the honorary treasurer, says, sits in his 

 office and dreams of hunting. But although office 

 work may frequently prevent Mr Young from grati- 

 fying his sporting inclinations, he would no doubt 

 make a special effijrt to be at Torphichen on the 

 last day of the season, and therefore he too might 

 have been found among the glad throng assembled 

 there. It is a long hack from Parkhead to Tor- 

 phichen village, and if Mr Ross, the head forester 

 at Hopetoun, did not attend the fixture he would 

 almost certainly join the hunt later, riding the 

 good little bay presented to him by the late Lord 

 Linlithgow, and valued accordingly. For years he 

 went well on old Indecision, a horse which Mr 

 Cross gave him ; and it is largely owing to his 

 care that the big wood, the saw-mill glen, and the 

 covert on the western shore at Hopetoun have 

 almost invariably held a good litter of cubs in 

 the autumn. 



That the compact entered into between Sir 

 Robert Usher and Mr Gillon, in 1906, should be 

 dissolved at the close of the past season, was a 

 circumstance very generally regretted. For some 

 weeks after their resignation became known, a not 

 unnatural anxiety as to the future existed, but that 

 was eventually set at rest by the announcement 

 that Sir Robert was willing to return to office, 

 and that he and Mr Arthur James Meldrum of 



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