The Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire Hunt. 35 



On 7th January the meet was at Barochan, and advantage was taken of 

 the occasion to present Sir Stephen Bine Renshaw with a handsome silver 

 salver subscribed for by members of the Hunt, on the occasion of his 

 approaching marriage. In making the presentation, the Master paid high 

 tribute to the services of the recipient as joint honorary secretary with Mr. 

 Archibald Walker. They afterwards had a good hunt from Barochan 

 Moss by North Brae and Corslie Hill over Black Rock and Mid Glen to 

 Knockmountain, the fox eventually taking them to Finlay stone, where 

 earths were open. It was a very wet and stormy day, but scent was good, 

 and another enjoyable gallop of about forty minutes was had fromElphinstone. 

 The course taken was by Ennelly, Scart, and Botherickfield, up through 

 Barfillan into Wraes, where a kill served as a capital finish. 



Again in the Houston country on 14th January from a meet at Fulwood 

 sport was really good. To begin with they had a fifty minutes hunt from 

 Goldenlea Gorse by Botherickfield, Wraes, and Elphinstone to Knock- 

 mountain, when the fox found an open earth. Another run in the afternoon 

 was a bit slower, hounds taking a line by Botherickfield, Wraes, and 

 Elphinstone over a similar route previously traversed to Knockmountain. 

 They continued to hunt this fox by Auchinbothie up to Dr. Brown's 

 coverts, where hounds were stopped at the end of a very hard day for horses. 



From Langbank Station on 21st January proceedings led followers 

 into a part of the country seldom crossed on a Saturday. As an opening 

 gallop, hounds ran from Midhill by Auchinbothie, Dr. Brown's coverts, 

 and Elphinstone to High Barlogan, where the fox got to ground. They 

 afterwards found another in Duchal High Wood and hunted over Slates 

 Hill leftwards above Carruth, over a wild bit of country by Barnaigh, nearly 

 to Greenside. Swinging to the left from here they went right on to Bar- 

 craig above Bridge of Weir, where they lost their fox. I have only given 

 the chief points of a run of one hour and forty minutes that was noteworthy 

 for fine hound work. 



Cumpstone, who was a cheery and enthusiastic man with hounds, 

 undoubtedly " made good " in his first season, for there was an abundance 

 of sport worthy of note. On 24th January, with Glanderston as the place 

 of tryst, they did nothing until reaching Caldwell Law, and just outside 

 here a fine old fox was put up. From here along the high-lying ground 

 nearly to Game Wood the pilot took a sort of zig-zag course. On above 



