13 

 FIRST HUNTING MEETING. 



Thursday, 14th November, 1771. 



" GLASGOW HOUNDS." 



Members in the Field — 



CAPTAIN ROBERTON. 



JOHN ORE. 



ALLAN SCOTT, Cowlairs. 



CAPTAIN NAPIER. 



MATTHEW ORR. 



GEORGE HOUSTON, Visiting Member. 



Found a Fox at Hamilton Moor, and killed him above 

 ground. Hunted Hare afterwards. Indifferent day. 



It is difficult to obtain any records of fox-hunting in this 

 neighbourhood up to a recent date. The country has been 

 hunted by Mr. Oswald, Capt. Tait, Sir David Baird, and the 

 Earl of Glasgow, but there are no records of what sport they 

 had. Sometimes the country was divided, and both Renfrew- 

 shire and Ayrshire hunted at the same time. Sir D. Baird 

 was a first-rate man across country, and a keen sportsman. 

 Many good runs have taken place in my own recollection 

 within the last twenty-five years, and many good and true 

 sportsmen have been taken away to the happy hunting 

 grounds, whom we will never see again on this side of Jordan. 

 Nimrod, in his "Northern Hunting Tour," tells us of a run 

 with Lord Kelburn long before my day. They found their 

 fox in Hawkhead (in those days a stronghold for breeding) 

 took him straight over the hill at Gleniffer, on to Crofthead, 

 and killed. His Lordship got into a river in the run and 

 had a severe ducking, but got on again, and was up at the 

 finish. I have failed to discover what burn this could have 

 been, unless somewhere in the hollow, before going up the 

 hill. His Lordship had not the best of tempers, and on one 

 occasion when his first whip displeased him, at Langside, he 



