order. During season 1 884-1 885 a fox found in Wraes had kept the fun going besom in hand, and in a state of panic natural to the occasion poor What a turmoil we used to have on an opening day when foxes were of the pack, by this time coming on the scene. running in various directions, and foot people who were scattered all over and blessings of Master and huntsman, to say nothing of the field ! Those who remember hunting at this time will readily agree with the the country made the welkin echo to such an extent as to earn the disgust dependable lot of fellows, and some of the fathers of the profession who are still remembered were Gavin Scott at Barochan, Tom Burnett at Houston, in one's veins provided by such stout-hearted and long-winded foxes, and assertion that foxes were then generally much bigger than they are at the joined the great majority. from one to three inches ! The gamekeepers of the period were a thoroughly in the high lying country above Johnstone and Howwood. What lovely The Lanarkshire and Renfrezvshire Hunt. 15 Many were there of the soul-stirring runs that set the blood tingling when they were dead beaten I have known them seek sanctuary of a curious brushes they carried, too, thick and bushy, with snow-white tips of anything Reynard was dusted out into the yard, where he ran right into the jaws He was hardly inside the threshold, however, when he met the guidwife, present time, although an exception must be made in regard to foxes found to find no quarter, he gained an entrance to Wraes farmhouse just below. men could be regarded as of the older type of gamekeeper, and have all for fully three hours, and when he eventually returned to his home haunt James Murdoch at Linwood, and Matthew Gilmour at Craigends. These Many will recollect the time when a tree near Finlaystone House was