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the Marquis lost tlie liounds entirely. The find 

 was at the Bar Hill, and they saw the last of them 

 near Thornhill. The kennel door was left open, and 

 some stragglers arrived on the second night, and the 

 remainder in a third-class carriage of which the 

 Marquis and Joe guarded the doors. 



On the death of Lord Queensberry, Mr. Carruthers 

 of Dormont came to the front at the request of the 

 members of the Hunt, who increased the subscrip- 

 tion. He at once built new kennels, and has gone 

 on steadily improving the hounds which belong 

 to the Hunt. Perhaps the best run yet was on the 

 last day of his first season. After drawing all the 

 Lest covers blank, the hounds were going home at 

 half-past three over Rockhall Moor, when a travel- 

 ling fox was viewed, and the scent proving some- 

 thing wonderful, they regularly raced the fox over 

 HartAvood, Thorniethwaite, Ryemuir, Skipmire, 

 Shaw Hill, through the holding cover of Dalfibble, 

 where he disdained to hang, and over the wild Kirk- 

 land Hill, Glenkiln, and on to Burance, where Joe 

 Oraham, Mr. John Johnstone, and Jack Roberts, 

 the whip, the only ones up, saw the fox and hounds 

 all on the side of a hill. The ground was so soft, and 

 intersected with moss bogs, and the horses so well 

 pumped that the riders had to get off, and giving 

 theirs into Roberts' charge, Joe Graham and Mr. 

 J ohnstone footed the fox and hounds over the snow on 

 thfe top of Queensberry, where they separated after 

 a serious consultation, Joe to follow the traces of the 



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