07 Dec




















Glentyan, hounds got a view of their fox, and rolled him over at the end of one hour and forty minutes. A meet had been arranged at Duchal on the following Saturday, but this was cancelled out of respect to the late Sir Michael Shaw Stewart, who had passed away. The deceased baronet was always a staunch supporter of Renfrewshire foxhunting. A Finlaystone meet on 19th December was productive of a really good hunt, although it was late in the afternoon. Finding in West Ferry, hounds ran bv Drums, Barmore and Corslie Hill to Wraes, where there was a check. Going on again from here by Ennelly they crossed Napps Muir and raced right into Duchal, when it was getting very dark, and the Master and Webster were lucky in being able to stop them near Duchal High Wood. The Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire Hunt. 23 When the late Mr. Archibald W. Finlayson and Miss Finlayson were living at Merchiston a very successful fixture was held here on 23rd January. A Wraes fox set the fun going, and it was a good gallop by Elphinstone and Gallowhill to Knockmountain, from which they ran over Barscube Hill by Mid Glen, back by Elphinstone to Wraes. A brace of foxes were in front of the pack as they entered here, and it was evidently a fresh one that took them on to Botherickfield, where the day came to an end. A most unusual incident occurred with the pack on 30th January. The meet was at Southbar, and a fox was put off a ledge of rock in the quarry leading from Park Strip. Hounds hunted him by Rashylea into Southbar and then ran by Shilton Rough to the right of Bishopton village by Slateford to West Ferry. Forcing him away again, the pilot made for the shore of the River Clyde, where a man with a gun had evidently been engaged in wild-fowl shooting. Being a foreigner, he seemed to cherish the idea that

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