07 Dec




















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

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