HISTORY OF THE LINLITHGOW 



the custom. Render and Rapid/ Ferryman and 



Fairy, '^ were ail good workers, and so was the 



Milton Sepoy, ^ who single-handed killed a fox after 



a run from Wallhouse to Williamscraig in the 



spring of 1884 ; while the Marquis of Waterford's 



Rutland,* purchased in 1882 along with his brother 



Resrent and an unentered doof-hound named For- 

 es c5 



rester at the price of a hundred and fifty guineas, 

 gained honourable mention for his performance in 

 the field and was used as a stud-hound. 



Charles Atkinson, who came from the Kildare 

 country, at that time hunted by Mr Forbes of 

 Callendar, succeeded his uncle in the huntsman's 

 place, and although he seems to have shown fair 

 sport, his sojourn with the pack was but a short 

 one. In the middle of the season Mr Russel came 

 to the committee with the proposal that in the 

 succeeding one (1882) he should be permitted to 

 hunt the hounds himself, and offered, if this were 

 agreed to, to waive his right to the subscription, 

 provided that were kept up and expended for the 

 good of the Hunt.^ At the present day the hounds 

 belong to the country, and it is mainly due to 

 this generous offer on Mr Russel's part and to the 

 acceptance of it by the committee that such is the 



' ^^^d \ ^^^^^^ ^^ Easselas— Sprightly. 



2 Fei-ryman | ^-^g^^^ ^^ ^^^^ Coventry's Galloper— Furbelow. 



3 Sepoy (1879) by Milton Sultan— their Torment. 



4 Rutland ) ,^ggQ. , Milton Rifleman— Lord Waterford's Redwing. 

 Regent ) 



* Minute-book, vol. i. p. 206. 



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