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speak to it through a dry fir plantings in a capital 

 thing of fifteen' miles straight from Macbie_, in fact 

 '' such a nipper that it could never have been one fox, ^^ 

 Mr. Sanclilands does not care for a hea^y-boned 

 hound^ as they get quite beat at the hills, and the 

 leader at present is Yarborough Bedford, aspayeddog, 

 light and narro\r and high on the leg, but he finds 

 " no country too heavy and no hills too high/^ On 

 Tuesday they take the east side by Dalmahoy and 

 Ormiston, on • Thursday they generally train it to- 

 wards Linlithp^ow, and Saturday finds them on the 

 Wall House side, which holds, with Dechmount and 

 Bangour, the best scent. The Carnwath time is 

 from the loth or 16th of March till about the end 

 of April. They have killed a May fox there, and an 

 eight -and-twenty miles trot finds them again in this 

 hill country for nearly as long in the autumn. 



Yv^hen the Yv^est Lothian are not at work, the men 

 of Edinburgh and the Lothians have had many a 

 good river run with Mr. Waldron HilFs otter hounds. 

 They are kept at his residence at Murrayfield House, 

 about two miles out of Edinburgh, on the West 

 Lothian side. Their owner never rides, but always 

 runs with foxhounds, and sees as many foxes broken 

 up as any man in the Hunt. Some years ago he 

 had a pack of otter hounds in Monmouthshire of the 

 "Welsh breed, smooth and white with yellow ears ; 

 for the last five years he has had black and tans, a 

 cross between the bloodhound and rough Lancashire 

 hound, which is used in that county for otter and 



