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Corslie Hill to Elphinstone. Taking the line out again, hounds went on by 

 Corslie Hill nearly to Barochan, leftwards by Formakin, and they were 

 stopped at Castlehill late in the afternoon. 



On the following Saturday they were stopped through frost, but on 

 15th November some good sport was forthcoming on the Neilston side of 

 the country. The best item was from Uplawmoor, and a good fox led his 

 pursuers over the hill towards Neilston Pad, turning leftwards nearly to 

 Cowden Hall and then along the railway. Hounds simply raced from here 

 by Braeface and Neilston Pad to the left of Glanderston, and after going 

 on by Dodhill they killed in the open near Welkin Farm at the end of a 

 fine forty-five minutes. 



On 10th December the gay throng assembled at Midton House, the 

 residence of an old follower in Mr. Andrew M'Nab. Finding in Skiff, this 

 fox did a lot of doubling about between here and Mount Top, and going 

 on from Skiff again hounds were simply describing a line by Bowfield 

 Moss, but they ultimately settled down in earnest to run by Rowbank to 

 Cowfall Crag. Back from here they careered by Hartfield Moss and Mid 

 Hartfield to Mount Top, thence to Skiff and down the hill towards High 

 Craig. A fine hunting run of one and three-quarter hours ended by the 

 pilot finding shelter in a drain near Milliken Park. 



I note that about this time there were still a few foxes in the Patterton 

 or Darnley country, for on 20th December several were on the move, one 

 being hunted around the district for thirty-five minutes ere he was killed 

 in Waulkmill Glen. That country is hardly worth drawing now, and presents 

 a strange contrast to what it was like about thirty years ago. I remember 

 one particular occasion when Judd took the hounds there for a morning's 

 cubbing and killed six in less than two hours. 



A rather funny incident occurred on the occasion of a day's hunting 

 from Woodside in wintry weather on 3rd January, 191 1. Hounds had 

 hunted a fox from the gorse at Cowfall Crag nearly to Caldwell when a 

 couple of foxhound puppies, being walked by the late Colonel Mure, 

 encountered Reynard and hunted him right back across Shutterflet Muir, 

 throwing their tongues to some tune. It was a remarkable instance of the 

 hunting instinct bred in the foxhound showing itself at such an early stage. 

 The pack were eventually got on the line of the fox, and he was hunted a 

 considerable time before going to ground in a drain at Caldwell Law. 



