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'Tis the last big fence in a run without pause, 

 That makes a man chance his neck in the cause." 



Col. Buchanan has as yet confined his operations mostly to 

 his own district, where there has been a very fair show of 

 cubs; and a word of praise is due to Capt. Colt, Gartsherrie 

 Cottage, and Mr. Jackson, Calder Park, for their excellent show 

 of foxes. Old Squires comes out again like an evergreen, as 

 he is, and it would have done anybody's heart good to have 

 seen him the other day, like a two-year-old, on the steep 

 bank at Calder Park, amongst the "dar lints," working his fox. 

 I am glad to see that old sportsman, John Hendrie, out again; 

 and his "fidus Achates," James Paul, the best of servants, is 

 all there. I am sorry to report no great addition to the rank 

 on the part of the " Jeunesse dor^" of Glasgow, two to one 

 bar one, and the "field a pony," seems to please them better. 

 Lord Eglinton opens on Friday the first November, and the 

 Colonel on the Saturday following, when I hope to be able 

 to give your readers further particulars as to the results of 

 the cub-hunting season. 



"They may rail at this life— from the hour I began it 

 I have found it a life full of kindness and bliss ; 

 And until they can show me a happier planet, 

 More social and bright, I'll content me with this. 



"As long as one has a strong back and good thighs. 

 And can foUow the chase, altho' on their feet, 

 They may say what they like of the sport in the skies. 

 But terra firmcCs the place with a pack that is fleet." 



SPLENDID SPOET WITH THE LANAEKSHIRE 

 AND RENFREWSHIRE FOX-HOUNDS. 



" The steady bay bearing the huntsman well — 

 Within the covert Squires' inspiring cheer, 

 The nervous sterns shaking the dull green dell — 

 The anxious skirter of the copse appears ! 

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