HISTORY OF THE LINLITHGOW 



It was about this time that the golden or Three- 

 mile -town fox came upon the scene in the full 

 vigour of life, and well does he deserve particular 

 mention, inasmuch as no other, it may safely be 

 stated, provided such sport as he did. Born in the 

 earths on the canal-banks near Three-mile-town in 

 1886, he is said to have been hunted by Atkinson, 

 Beavan, Cotesworth, B. Cotesworth, and Mr Cross, 

 in turn, and since, because of his colour, — always 

 " bright as a new guinea when he first broke cover," 

 he could not easily be mistaken, it is probable that 

 such was the case. When first hunted by Cotes- 

 worth, who got the horn on Bea van's accepting 

 service under Lord Eglinton in 1889, he had not 

 as yet attained much notoriety, and it was, perhaps, 

 only after the run of the 28th of January 1890, 

 that his reputation was fully established. On that 

 occasion, as on many others this season, B. Cotes- 

 worth, who was then living at Golfhall, hunted 

 hounds, for Cotesworth had had the misfortune 

 to break his collar-bone when jumping a fence near 

 Dalmahoy some weeks before. Hopetoun House 

 was the fixture, and it was late in the afternoon 

 when hounds were put into the coverts at Three- 

 mile-town. Finding at once, they broke across the 

 Linlithgow road towards Lampinsdub, but turning 

 left-handed, recrossed the road and went on by 

 Auldcathie and the earths which the fox knew so 

 well, to Fawnspark. Then they went away, crossed 

 the Linlithgow road for the third time, and passing 

 the farms of Waterstone and Drumforth, reached 



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