Renfrewshire, and all the hounds up, which is saying a great 

 deal for young 'uns. I can say that from the time I saw them 

 corning over the hill from Elphinstone they never had a sem- 

 blance of a check, and the time from find to finish would be 

 about fifty minutes. From what I hear, some of them had 

 quite enough at Drums from the pace they went, and I doubt 

 very much if any horse could have lived with them to the 

 finish. Colonel Buchanan was within a hundred yards of his 

 " beauties " all the way to where they were thrown out; and 

 Mr. George Kidston, Mr. Durham Kippen, and young Mr. 

 Arthur were in their usual places. The opening meet of the 

 above pack will take place here, to-day, at the Kennels, an 

 account of which I hope to give in your next edition. 



SPLENDID RUN WITH THE LANARKSHIRE AND 

 RENFREWSHIRE FOX-HOUNDS. 



Saturday, 8th March. — Met at Bridge of Weir; one of the 

 largest fields I have seen this season, the Meet being gi^aced 

 by an unusual number of the fair sex. The morning was 

 everything that a sportsman could wish for, and the universal 

 remark was, "There must be scent to-day." As old John 

 Harrison used to say, " Scent, sir, is a thing nobody knows 

 anything about till they try;" and my advice to young 

 sportsmen is always to say, "I think the scent will be bad to- 

 day," and if their predictions don't turn out correct so much 

 the better. Old John was right when he stated scent was an 

 enigma. I have seen hounds at Shotts running with a breast- 

 high scent over "snow" in the open, and when they went 

 into covert, where the snow was melted, throw their noses up. 

 Again, I have seen them running in the open, where the 

 snow was lying, hardly speaking to it, and whenever they w^ent 

 into covert where snow was lying, racing after their fox; such 

 is scent, and on Saturday we had a very good idea of this. 

 Drew the Scarth and West Barlogan blank, but a fox 

 jumped up on the Knapps Muir, and ran to ground in the 



