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Time, fifty minutes, with hardly what you would call a check. 

 Squires says this was one of the best runs he has had in this 

 country, and most of the field being with 'era, thoroughly 

 enjoyed it, as it was a case of genuine riding to hounds, 

 seeing them working, and not steeple-chasing after tail hounds. 

 Old Squires went better than ever, and most of the "right 

 sort " were in their usual places. 



"To live a life free from gout, paiD, or phthisic, 

 Athletic employment is found the best physic ; 

 The nerves are by exercise harclen'd and strengthen'd, 

 And vigour attends it by wliich life is lengthen'd." 



CLYDESDALE BEAGLES. 



*' Fond echo seems to like the sport, 

 And join the jovial cry ; 

 The woods, the hills, the sound retort, 

 And music fiEs the sky, 



Then a hunting we will go." 



Fielding. 



Saturday, 29th November. — Met at NeAvton Mearns. Drew 

 the whins at Crosslee Bridge and found immediately. The 

 hare, going away straight to Greenhaggs Hill, went by Nether- 

 place and Malletsheugh. Here the pack divided, but two couple 

 and a-half of the leading hounds stuck to the hunted hare, and 

 pushed her up to the top of Greenhaggs, where she squatted. 

 A check took place, but the hare was viewed doubling back 

 to Malletsheugh, and then, circling away to the left, she went 

 by Kilmuir Dam. By this time Peter, who had been away 

 with another hare, joined in. Puss then Avent over part of 

 the Mearns Moor, and going over the Kilmarnock Road, 

 crossed the Crook Moss and circled round Hazelden Hill three 

 times. A drenching rain beginning to fall did not improve 

 scent, and after running down to Southfield Wood, on to the 

 left by Westfield and Crook, owing to darkness we were 

 obliged to whip off, after running three hours. The little 

 dogs worked well all through, and never required casting, and 



