HISTORY OF THE LINLITHGOW 



difficulties, has done much towards improving the 

 pack, and through his civility and invariable good 

 humour, has won the regard of all with whom 

 he has come in contact. Although this was his 

 first place as huntsman, he was not wanting in 

 experience. Besides having been whipper-in to 

 the Brocklesby, the Bramham Moor, the Quorn, 

 Sir Watkin Wynn's and the Badsworth, he had 

 occasionally hunted the two last-mentioned packs, 

 and when he came to Scotland he brought with 

 him the knowledge which he had then acquired. 

 During his first and second seasons he had Fred 

 Hoxford and Will Cypher to turn hounds to him, 

 while, when Hoxford left in 1908, Cypher was 

 promoted to fill his place, and Jack Woodger, who 

 came from the Duke of Buccleuch's establishment, 

 was engaged as second whipper-in. 



One of the first matters which Mr Gillon turned 

 his attention to was the infusion of some fresh 

 blood into the kennel, and probably he will always 

 look back with a feeling of satisfaction on the 

 purchase which he made in the summer of 1906, 

 of a draft from the Atherstone pack. Four couples 

 out of the five and a half of which it consisted were 

 good hounds, and few could have been better in 

 their work than their Dagon (1900) during the 

 two seasons he was at Golfhall. Other drafts were 

 got later, and although nearly all of them were 

 useful, those which proved to be of the most service 

 came from the Brocklesby, the Duke of Buccleuch's 

 and the Cattistock in 1907, and from the Pucker idge 



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