HISTORY OF THE LINLITHGOW 



The best hunters which Cotesworth rode about 

 this time were Mavourneen, and Carlton. The 

 former, which had previously belonged to Mr Cross, 

 carried him through nearly the whole of the run 

 just described, and had she not been possessed of 

 quality and a great heart she could hardly have 

 done so, or gone through the many other long hunts 

 which fell to her lot, so creditably as she did. 

 Carlton, the horse on which he appears in the 

 photograph taken at Craigiehall, was perhaps his 

 favourite hunter; but, although an excellent per- 

 former over a country, he was bad-tempered, and 

 eventually became so savage in the stable, — as Cope, 

 the stud-groom, knew to his cost, — that he had to 

 be destroyed. 



In a previous chapter something has been said of 

 the unwillingness, as a general rule, of the Hopetoun 

 foxes to travel, but the fox which was found there 

 on the 2nd of January 1897 was far from being a 

 " ringy " one, and might fairly have been designated 

 " straight-necked." He was pushed up near the 

 gardens, and hounds ran him hard up to Craigton- 

 hill and thence back to Hopetoun big wood, round 

 which they had a turn before they went away. 

 Then racing by Whitequarries down to the saw-mill 

 and through the privet covert be3"ond, they went on 

 over the grass to the Binns strip, and from that by 

 the farms of Burnshot, Cauldcoats and Walton to 

 the Bo'ness golf-course where they checked. Cotes- 

 worth, however, put them right, and away they 

 went again, past the monument on Bonny toun hill 



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