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owners generally hunt elsewhere^ bufc tliey are very 

 fair preservers of foxes^ of wliicli twenty brace are 

 generally brouglit to hand in a season. On the 

 Edinburgh side_, a prospect of something good over 

 the grass from Dechmoiint^ Champflurie^ and Ban- 

 gour will bring out the Edinburgh^ and Glasgow gen- 

 tlemen as well, and swell the field to fifty. Potts, 

 Purslow, NasoU; and Jack Jones followed Tom Rin- 

 toul as huntsmen ; and then Stracey, who had two 

 seasons as first whip with Jones (to whom he also 

 whipped in with the Warwickshire), went np, and 

 has now held the horn for five seasons, which makes 

 his tvv^enty-third with hounds. 



There are generally about 45] couple of hounds in 

 kennel, and two dozen couple of puppies are put out 

 among the Barnton tenants. The strength of the 

 kennel comes from the Yarborough and Fitzhardinge 

 drafts, of which some ten couple have been sent from 

 England for four seasons past. The Yarborough dogs 

 and the Eitzhardinge bitches have done them most 

 service, and Bedford and Auditor among the former, 

 and Bertha and Songstress among the latter have been 

 the mainstay. The Eitzhardinge (late MorrelFs) Baja- 

 zets have " proved themselves good workers and fine 

 constitutions,*^ and the old dog was put away in his 

 eleventh season at the kennels, which are at Golf Hall, 

 five miles from Edinburgh, The Cromwell nose, which 

 helped Harry Ayris over many a dry fallow, also bids 

 fair to be perpetuated in his son Waterloo. In his 

 very first season he was the only one that would 



