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to the check, Mr. C. T. Couper, Mr. George Dunlop, and Mr. 

 T. Thorburn had much the best of it. The hounds have been 

 out sixteen days cub-hunting — killed fifteen brace and ran 

 two and a half brace to ground; fifty days' regular hunting 

 — killed sixteen and a half brace and ran nine brace to the 

 ground. Out of sixty-six days advertised, they have been 

 stopped by frost thirteen days. On the whole — being out 

 fifty-three days — they have killed thirty-one and a half brace 

 of foxes, ran eleven and a half brace to ground, and had one 

 blank day. There has been no scarcity of foxes till late on in 

 the season, when some of their best coverts were drawn blank ; 

 but as the owner of these coverts is well known to be a 

 staunch preserver of foxes, it must have been more bad luck 

 than anything else, as, in shooting the coverts, they have 

 never missed seeing two or three foxes at least. A special 

 word of praise is due to Mr. John Graham, the tenant of the 

 Drums shooting, whose coverts have never been drawn blank. 

 Old Squires keeps as fresh as ever, and his "cheery" voice 

 has lost none of its music. I believe he intends going on 

 another season, and I only hope to see him looking as well at 

 the covert side with his beauties next year. Little George, 

 the first whip, is as active as a kitten, and has been doing 

 very well, but I am sorry to hear he is leaving. The Colonel's 

 hounds have been in splendid form, and with anything 

 like a scent, no fox has been able to live before them. We 

 must now hang up the " old red rag" and betake ourselves to 

 other sports for a while, only hoping that when winter comes 

 round again the same old jovial faces may be spared to meet 

 us at the covert side. 



CLYDESDALE BEAGLES. 



It has long been felt that a pack of foot beagles would 

 afford excellent sport and a recreative amusement to a number 

 of young men in Glasgow who are fond of hunting, but from 



