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requiring a candle to show it the way up a drain. To all who knew him end of his days. Ritchie was well over seventy when he died at Johnstone 32 The Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire Hunt. that this desecration of the Sabbath be discontinued, as it gave so much famous south country pack. Ritchie as " Kilbarchan Jock," I believe he was employed as a weaver, W. J. Finlayson. as to what had happened or was going to happen, and he strongly resented had his faults and failings like many another man, one could not help but Harry Houghton, the well-known runner with the Quorn, when I first saw him on the station platform at Leicester on the way to a meet of the for he was regularly with the pack in all sorts of weather. Many a mile I the point-to-point course on the Sunday prior to the races, and requesting but the attraction of sport caused him to forsake the looms on hunting days, hunting cap — with an up-to-date digging-out appliance strapped on his have walked with him, and it was he who first showed Mr. G. Barclay and In March, 1909, the Master received a protest from the Houston Kirk in a similar rig-out, although his well-known aversion to anything in the his late brother the way across country. He was very positive in his opinion admire the sporting instinct so pronounced in the old fellow right to the Sessions in regard to the practice of members of the Hunt walking over in September, 1918. The portrait given is from a photograph by Mr. Houghton was there in full regalia — scarlet coat, white breeches, and shape of uniform could hardly have been overcome. When I first knew criticism, as I can well remember when I accused one of his terriers of well he was just plain blunt Jock, with many witty sayings, and while he back. It then struck me how nice it would be to see our own man Ritchie

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