predicament. Latterly Mr. Speirs sustained an injury that caused him to except when in a jovial mood, when he seemed to revel in leading the in- right into a bog if he saw a chance of leading anyone into an awkward Mr. Alexander Crum, Mr. J. C. Cuninghame, and Mr. J. Wallace among tion of hunting in Renfrewshire. some of the other coverts in the Houston country and find half-a-dozen old the more ardent followers. The last-mentioned gentleman was for a long under the nom de plume of " Crop and Spurs," that I continued a descrip- hunting. take things more quietly, but he continued to follow hounds on a pony or racy articles on the sport to The Glasgow Herald. Advanced age compelled of foxes in those days, and one specific instruction Judd received from his experienced into difficulties. For instance, he would unhesitatingly gallop hardly necessary to add that this injunction was especially satisfactory to him to retire, and it was on the suggestion of this sportsman who wrote his mount to get over more easily itself. For this method a very quiet nag master on being engaged is worth recalling. " You can go into Wraes and seldom satisfied unless he handled a brace or more in the course of a day's is an absolute necessity. There was about this time another very keen participant in Mr. Thomas After Bishop came Tom Morgan as huntsman in 1879, and he was in Judd, who, like most huntsmen, had a veritable thirst for blood, and he was time a familiar figure in the hunting field, and for many years he contributed dog foxes any day. If you can't kill them you are of no use to me." It is Speirs, of Largs, who was a fine horseman and one to follow across country, hack, and when coming to a fairly stiff jump he would slide off and allow turn succeeded by Harry Judd in 1882. There was quite a plethoric supply