since this sad event, Bogside ra.ces and steeple-chases are, 

 however, now one of the best Meetings in Great Britain, and 

 are increasing in popularity every year, under the patronage 

 of that first-rate sportsman, the Earl of Eglinton, ably assisted 

 in the management of the Meeting by Mr. Shaw of Ayr, the 

 clerk of the course. 



Mr. Colin Dunlop some years ago kept a capital pack of 

 harriers, and Chalmers, who for a long time was first whip to 

 the L. and R, hunted them. Under the able management 

 of the Master we had excellent sport. One run in particular, 

 with an outlying roe-deer, over a capital bit of country above 

 Mains, was a clipper. Another good thing we had over Ear- 

 nock muir. Mr. Dunlop used to go well on a cobby chestnut 

 he bought from Mr. Thorburn, and he was never far off his 

 beauties. Wire stopped his hunting at last. An amusing 

 story is told of an old sportsman having lost the fox hounds 

 in a fog, came up with Mr. Pollock's harriers, which were out 

 that day, and had an excellent spin. A tremendous leap was 

 taken by Mr. John Orr on the " Priest," one day at Netherton 

 braes. Instead of going down through a large grip at the 

 end of the strip, he cleared the whole thing, about 27 feet. 

 Mr. Thorburn, one day at Greenside, stumped the field at a 

 very nasty place on the side of the muir. A dinner of the 

 two hunts, Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire, and Linlithgow 

 and Stirlingshire, took place in the Western Club, Glasgow, 

 in 1850 — Jack Fleming in the chair; James Merry, croupier. 

 Fleming and Inglis of Torsonce (a thorough sportsman), were 

 the only gentlemen who wore the dress uniform of their hunt, 

 our local pack not having such a thing. Few casualties have 

 happened in my recollection with these hounds, with the 

 exception of Mr. A. Clapperton and Mr. A. Crum, both of 

 whom broke a leg. Mr. Monteath and Captain Hay Newton, 

 each broke an arm. An excellent picture of the hunt hangs 

 in the lobby of the Western Club, Glasgow, presented to the 

 Club by the late Mr. Hamilton of Minnard, Avith portraits of 

 most of the old Members in Lord Glasgow's day; and by the 

 Icind permission of the managers, I annex a copy of it. Tlie 



