expected to reveal the presence of foxes underground. The Master and Houston country who could dig one out with his hands. This is an absolute In Renfrewshire digging for a fox is not such a common practice as I wonder what present-day sportsmen would think of the many long blood, and more than once I have known them at that time to dig for a fox patiently shivering at the covert side in the vain hope of another gallop. mark a fox, even if it only conveys the notion that one may be found above It would have been interesting to hear what these people were muttering an easy matter to get a fox out, and there was a very keen pedestrian in the impatient riders who simply hate to hang around while operations are going ground when they call again. to themselves as they drew the homeward rein. Mind you, there were Buchanan ? Sir David was most persistent when he thought hounds required fact, as I saw him do it. On ioth February a meet was held at Giffen, and nothing was done until reaching Brownmuir, where a fox was marked to ground. When I state that such a combination as Donald Sinclair and two Highland deer- no motor cars waiting to take you home in those days. It is sometimes necessity, even though there may be some grumbling on the part of those on. When hounds mark a fox to ground it is only in the natural course of enjoyed under unpleasant conditions. huntsman can always gain a certain measure of satisfaction when hounds in former years, although there are times when it becomes an absolute hours of digging often resorted to during the reign of the late Sir David 44 The Lanarkshire and Renfrezvshire Hunt. from the afternoon until late in the evening. Meanwhile the field lingered things that they should occasionally get him, otherwise they could not be