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of foxes invariably found here. Unfortunately Woodside is a very difficult place to get away from satisfactorily, owing to so many people on foot taking up position on the main road just above in their anxiety to get a good view of the sport. With the first fox they had a nice ring by Cuffhill and Trearne back to the starting point, but it was a much better hunt from Cuffhill by Shutterflet and Hillend, past Old Hall, into Caldwell policies. Running out of here to Caldwell Law, fresh foxes jumped up to spoil matters. At the end of a good day hounds had blood at Peatman's Moss, a vast expanse of heather and bogland very much favoured by foxes. In Duchal policies hounds had put in a very lively time during cubbing, but there is such fine lying in the woodlands here that the matter of a find is generally a certainty, and Duchal has fully sustained its prestige in this respect since Sir J. P. Maclay acquired the estate. He has two sons who The Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire Hunt. 49 have occasionally been out with the hounds, although not yet regular followers. There was a meet here on 27th December, and the woodland hunting that followed was of an especially merry character. In the after- noon a fox was found in Scart, and running by Botherickfield and Cleaves they went nearly to Barochan and back by Corslie Hill House to Wraes. From here they took another turn round by Botherickfield and Cleaves to Barfillan, where they most unluckily lost a well-beaten fox. Tuesday, 17th February, can be recalled as one of the most pleasant days ever spent on the hills under ideal weather conditions. They met at Uplawmoor village. Scent did not seem very good at the outset, for hounds were simply crawling after a fox from Hartfield Moss until reaching Skiff. Going away from here on much better terms, they raced by Bowfield Moss and West Gavin to Belltrees Glen, where the fox got to ground in a very awkward place. He

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