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gets weak in a ran, don't look for a gap in a wall (as so many 

 are apt to do) where there are lots of loose stones and the 

 ground generally much cut up, but look to where the ground 

 is good to rise from, for without a proper fulcrum the 

 exertion of leaping is doubled. 



LANARKSHIRE AND RENFREWSHIRE FOX- 

 HOUNDS. 



" Oil, give me the man to whom nought comes amiss — 

 One horse or another, that country or this ; 

 Through falls and bad starts who undauntedly still 

 Eides up to this motto, 'Be with 'em I will,' 

 Qusesitum ! Queesitum ! fill up to the brim. 

 We'll drink, if we die for't, a bumper to him ! " 



Warburton. 



Saturday, 28 th (Bishopton). — A lovely morning, and a very 

 large field out. A move was made to Barrochan Moss, and 

 in less than a minute a hearty cry pealed through the thick 

 covert — "Tally-ho! gone away!" rung from the lips of the 

 whipper-in, as he viewed the biggest fox that ever was seen 

 break away from the corner. "Hoick! to, hollo!" cried 

 Squires, in his musical voice. "For'ard! for'ard!"— and 

 every hound answered by bursting from the wood. "Hold 

 hard! let them get at it!" cried the Colonel to some eager 

 sportsmen. They ran him through Dargavel policies, along 

 the burn, and up by the north wood at Barrochan. The field, 

 who were all waiting on the road, got to the leading grounds, 

 but Squires and the Colonel were thrown out, having taken 

 the wrong side at Dargavel. Going over the top of the hill 

 at Barrochan, he raced down over the road near the mill to 

 Olives, and going through the corner of the wood went on to 

 Botherwickfield (all grass). They hung here for about ten. 

 minutes. Squires having now got up, found his hounds lying 

 at the earth, and he told me he thinks the fox must have 



