AND STmLINGSHIRE HUNT 



past three, just one hour and three quarters from 

 the time of finding.^ 



The season of 1834, also, produced some fine 

 runs. On the 22nd of October the hounds met 

 at Stonebyres, in Lanarkshire, when, finding in 

 the glen at Craignethan, they went away at once 

 for the Avon water, turned, crossed the Nethan 

 for Stonebyres hill, and again went away at a 

 great pace to Dillar hill. From that, although 

 hard pressed, the fox managed to carry on to 

 Dumbreck where, through the strength of the 

 gorse, he was enabled to dwell for a short time. 

 Refinding him, however, they forced him away 

 "at a death pace" across the Carlisle road, beyond 

 which he faced the open country, apparently with- 

 out any point, for miles, turned to the right across 

 Fauldhouse Flow, and back along the Carlisle 

 road for his own country. But he was unable to 

 regain it, and they ran into him in a cowshed at 

 the end of " a trying run of two hours and fifteen 

 minutes."^ In the afternoon of the 11th of 

 December, after meeting at Binny craig, a long 

 run took place from a small gorse covert near 

 the Braes o' Mar, from which hounds threaded 

 their way to the Linlithgow road. From that 

 they wheeled, and skirting the covert in which 

 they had found, pointed for Binny craig, sank the 

 hill, passed the farms of Hangingside and Oat- 

 ridge, and leaving the village of Ecclesmachan on 

 their right, traversed the Tar hill to Hillend. 



^ 'Sporting Magazine,' March 1834. ~ Ibid., December 1834. 



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