HISTORY OF THE LINLITHGOW 



in toto, Mr Cross was so only to the extent of one- 

 third ; for the committee, using the reserve fund 

 which had accumulated in their hands since the 

 beginning of Mr Bussel's second season, now 

 purchased the other two-thirds on behalf of the 

 country.-^ 



The area overtaken at this time was very much 

 the same as the present one, except that it extended 

 on the east rather farther into Mid-Lothian. Thus 

 foxes are known to have been killed in Barnton 

 park as late as in Mr Cross's mastership ; but what 

 were coverts in 1895 are not so now, and the place 

 is no longer hunted. In the autumn of 1907, 

 however, Barnton received a visit from the hounds, 

 for Morgan, the present huntsman, took them 

 there one morning when at exercise, and after 

 seeing the old house, kennels, and riding-school, 

 woke the echoes with his horn. During- Mr Cross's 

 first season, Cotesworth hunted the hounds as he 

 had in Captain Cheape's last, but sport was much 

 interfered with by frost, and Colonel Shairp's death, 

 on the 30th of January 1891, necessitated a short 

 period of inactivity. From the beginning of his 

 second season until the end of his mastership in 

 1895, Mr Cross carried the horn himself, and in 

 Cotesworth he had an excellent kennel- huntsman 

 and first whipper-in, and in Harry Maiden ^ an able 

 second. It was then that home-breeding on a more 

 extensive scale than formerly was resorted to, and al- 



1 Mimite-book, vol. ii. pp. 62, 67, and 68. 



2 Harry Maiden, 2nd whipper-in 1891 and 1892, afterwards became 

 huntsman to Sir H. W. W. Wynn. 



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