HISTORY OF THE LINLITHGOW 



As years passed he became more and more inter- 

 ested in the pack under his management, and, in 

 consequence of the number of hounds which he 

 bred, he was able to keep it up to the required 

 strength without having resource to the purchase 

 of a single draft hound. In breeding, he greatly 

 relied upon, and received much help from. Cotes- 

 worth — who now again got the horn — and through 

 the combined efforts of master and huntsman, many 

 good working hounds and a fair number of good 

 looking ones were put forward in most years. 



Few of the hounds at this period possessed any 

 of the blood of the pack which had been in the 

 kennel during the union with East Lothian, but 

 one or two couples of those in which it was still 

 to be found were bred from, and therefore the 

 strains were not lost ; nor was the blood which 

 Captain Cheape had introduced and Mr Cross had 

 continued, overlooked by Mr Fred Usher and Cotes- 

 worth. Thus Sir Bache Cunard's Beauty (1888), 

 who through her sire, Belvoir Forecast (1885), was 

 a grand-daughter of Belvoir Weathergage, came 

 to have many descendants on the benches at Golf- 

 hall : and the same may be said of Bompish (1888), 

 of the Blankney Fairy (1883), of the Atherstone 

 Trusty (1881), and of Captain Johnstone's True- 

 man (1884) and his Templar (1888), all previously 

 alluded to. From Beauty sprang a line of good 

 bitches— Blissful (1894), Bashful (1897), Bravery 

 and Brilliant (1900), Blackcap (1902), Bangle (1903), 

 and the sisters Blissful and Bluebell (1905) : while 



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