HISTORY OF THE LINLITHGOW 



little chap, and on my great big roan, looked like 

 a pea on a girdle." 



Horton had previously been with the Eamont 

 Harriers, and although report differs as to his 

 ability in the field, it would seem that Colonel 

 Gillon at least was sufficiently satisfied with his 

 performance, for he not only retained his services 

 throughout his mastership, but more than once 

 alludes in his diary to a clever cast on the part 

 of his huntsman as well as to the perfect appear- 

 ance which the hounds presented ; while from a 

 perusal of Horton's letters,^ it may be gathered 

 that he was hard - working, honest, and pains- 

 taking. The same cannot be said of Hoggan, 

 the first whipper-in, who seems to have been any- 

 thing but a good servant, and whose unsatisfactory 

 conduct, generally, necessitated his departure in the 

 middle of Colonel Gillon's first season. In the 

 following one, Fred Smith and George Cox, until 

 lately huntsman to the Glamorganshire Hounds,^ 

 came as whippers-in, the former staying for one 

 year, at the end of which he was succeeded by 

 Joseph Outhwaite, and the latter for two. One 

 Saturday evening, in his last season. Colonel Gillon 

 told Cox to stop some hounds on the far side of 

 a brook ^ not far from Wallhouse. Cox, who was 

 riding a mare named Miss Cox, set her going 



^ Among Hunt papers in the custody of Messrs Glen & Henderson, 

 Linlithgow. 



2 George Cox, huntsman to the Glamorganshire Hounds for twenty- 

 three seasons, retired in 1909. 



^ Probably the Couston water. 



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