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IN his often-quoted and much-loved hunting poem, Running On!, the Scottish Border poet Will H Ogilvie includes the line: “Good men follow the good men gone”. While this may offer some solace to those still living, particularly when it is read at funerals, it rather asks the question as to where the ones that have “gone” have, in fact, gone.

The answer, on Earth at any rate, is to a variety of places – to churchyards and memorial cairns, ashes scattered on the winds and in all manner which celebrate their hunting lives.

“Tom Moody insisted that the congregation should give three ‘view halloas’ over his coffin, much to the consternation of the minister”

Any selection of these figures is bound to some extent to be personal, but they serve to show the rewards that may be had from visiting any hunting figure’s grave.

Ogilvie himself, who spent 11 years in Australia, has a plaque in Ashkirk