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well stocked with foxes at this period, the sport in this district being par- predominance of wire and other obstacles to sport, this county became handled about seventy brace of foxes, or an average of seventeen and a half a kill at the end of it. What is known as the Houston country was apparently day. The weather was, however, very stormy on this occasion, and good The number of runs of any importance each season up to 1862 ranged from evidently keen on blooding the hounds, for in his first four seasons he that eleven brace of foxes had been killed, there being only one blank day. twenty to thirty, but blank days were rather frequent, and the record of increasingly difficult to hunt. In 1862 Harrison was succeeded as huntsman by John Squires, who was The opening of season 1851-1852 was at Houston village on 28th returned the compliment by bringing his pack to Barochan on the following It was a matter of general regret when in 1866 Sir David was unwill- brace of foxes were accounted for. There were, however, ten blank days — mostly in Lanarkshire. for a day's sport, which proved rather poor, and the then Lord Eglinton The Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire Hunt. 13 detailed account of the sport, and the records I have referred to will suffice to convey an idea of what foxhunting in Renfrewshire was like at that period. On 3rd March, 1865, Sir David Buchanan took his pack to Ayrshire and Broadfield, but owing to the mineral wealth of Lanarkshire, with the October, and when this campaign closed on 17th March it was found ticularly good, and in the course of the season a total of eleven and a half brace per season. Popular meets at this time were Castlemilk, Garscube, kills never exceeded twelve brace in any season. It is impossible to give a sport was out of the question.