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fine run of forty-five minutes from Bridge of Weir to Carruth, 

 and killed. Barclay got the brush. 



" Feb. 1st. — Bishopton. Found in Westferry, had a sharp 

 burst and lost. Found again in Elphinstone, ran him through 

 the Wreas over High Barlogan, and back nearly to where 

 they found. A slight check took place here, or nobody would 

 have seen them again. Picked it up again, and ran to the 

 Kilmalcolm strips, and back over Barscube hill to Barrochan, 

 on through Drums to ground at Westferry. This was one of 

 the longest runs that has taken place in this country." 



LANARKSHIRE & RENFREWSHIRE FOX-HOUNDS. 



CUB-HUNTING. 



As a great number of our readers have a very imperfect 

 idea what the above term means, a few words' will easily 

 explain it. Fox-hounds, as a rule, will not take naturally to 

 hunting the fox only, but at first will dash after any species 

 of game, strange as it may seem to the uninitiated; not like 

 a pointer, who, when quite a puppy, will point naturally even 

 at barn-door fowls or any small birds; therefore, the object 

 of cub-hunting is to train the young hounds into hunting the 

 fox, and break them off other game, especially roe-deer, the 

 size of whose bodies impregnates the air with a very strong 

 scent; and unless young hounds have plenty opportunities of 

 seeing deer, with a cold scent, or a blank day, the best are 

 apt to flash off after haunch. In olden times it was often the 

 habit of masters of hounds to begin by hunting hare, on 

 purpose to make the hounds put their noses down and hunt 

 patiently on a cold scent, and then take to hunting the fox 

 afterwards. And even now many packs of harriers are 

 composed entirely of what are called dwarf fox-hounds. 

 Before taking the field, even in cub-hunting, the huntsman 

 is not idle, having a great deal of work to do in exercising 



