AND STIRLINGSHIRE HUNT 



When, in the spring of 1904, Cotesworth laid 

 aside the horn, he had been seventeen seasons 

 with the pack, — two as first whipper-in, four as 

 first whipper-in and kennel huntsman, and eleven 

 as huntsman. A period of service so considerable 

 deserved acknowledgment, and the subscription 

 which, upon the suggestion of Lord Linlithgow, 

 was opened on his behalf, resulted in the in- 

 gathering of three hundred sovereigns, contri- 

 buted for the most part by those who had 

 hunted with him. But although this substantial 

 token of goodwill must have been acceptable, 

 it was probably the small keepsake in the shape 

 of a silver hunting - horn, and the present made 

 to his wife, which gave Cotesworth the most 

 pleasure. After his retirement he lived at Currie 

 for a time, but to a man of his temperament, life 

 without work soon became unendurable, and with 

 a craving to be with hounds again, he went 

 out to America to join his brother, then hunts- 

 man to the Middlesex Hounds in Massachusetts. 

 Before leaving this country he was a guest at the 

 first puppy -show held after his resignation, and 

 had an opportunity of saying, as he did with 

 truth and, at the same time, with much fond 

 pride, that he had bred every hound then in the 

 kennel himself. Many of these were the descend- 

 ants of Genitor (1896), a hound of which he had 

 the highest opinion, and had therefore used most 

 freely. In writing of him at a later period, Cotes- 

 worth states, " We could not have too much Genitor, 



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