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Those gentlemen who knew old Kemp, and recollect the 

 wonderful performances, for a man of his age, after the hounds 

 on foot, would be repaid by a visit to the shop of Mr. Dougall, 

 gunsmith, 23 Gordon Street, where there is at present a life- 

 like bust of the old man, done by a local artist, Mr William 

 Houston, 328 St. Vincent Street. Subscriptions for the bust 

 will be received at the shop. 



EXTRAORDINARY LONG HUNTING RUN WITH 

 THE LANARKSHIRE AND RENFREWSHIRE 

 HOUNDS. 



March 22nd, 1873. — I have had the pleasure of writing so 

 many accounts of "good things" with the above pack this 

 season that I am afraid your readers must be beginning to 

 tire of reading them; but I think the sport of Saturday last 

 is almost unprecedented in the annals of the Lanarkshire and 

 Renfrewshire Fox-hounds. Saturday, 18th, met at Finlay- 

 ston, one of the estates of the esteemed Master of the Hounds. 

 The mansion-house and shootings on this estate, most sports- 

 men will be glad to hear, have been leased by that genuine 

 sportsman, Mr. George Kidston. It is needless to say that 

 Hay has always plenty of foxes, and the moment the hounds 

 were thrown in the east gorse a leash were on foot. One 

 broke to the south and went up over the hill, another went on 

 towards Westferry, with two or three couple of hounds. In 

 the meantime the body of the pack were running a fox towards 

 the house. This fox crossed out over the road near the smithy 

 and went up the hill, leaving Knockmountain on the right. 

 The fox then went away with turned back to Finlayston, and 

 the hounds flashing a little crossed the line of the one which 

 went away from the east end, and ran him over Barscube 

 Hill on to Elphinstone to ground. Trotted back to Finlayston, 

 and chopped a fox in the West Covert. Found again in a 

 small gorse near the railway above Broadfield, and came away 



