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his brother (Mr. J. J. Barclay) was in charge, they had a wonderful day's On 6th March, 1915, when the Master was unavoidably absent, and to be faced by every hunt in the Kingdom. minutes ere they killed in the open near Gallowhill. They afterwards had sport. The meet was at Craig North Farm, near Lugton, and they ran it was perhaps just as well that foxes were only really plentiful in certain a very enjoyable hunt from Erskine. During this season a total of twenty- matical. All the eligible followers were, of course, called up, and nearly all Great War, and the destiny of foxhunting in Renfrewshire became proble- a fox. Still they continued to keep up the average two days a week, and their first fox through the grounds of Dunlop House and Damhead Wood the runs brought off were quite as good as often associated with a season with a fox found here hounds hunted around the district for forty-five localities. When scent permitted, hounds ran in great style, and some of By the time another season came round we were in the throes of the one and a half brace of foxes were killed — above the average of recent years. there was hardly anyone around to render assistance in the way of viewing the hunters commandeered by the Government — a position such as that afternoon with a Caldwell fox, and at a scorching pace hounds ran by to ground on the edge of Grange Moor. The great run came in the too plentiful had to be overcome in some manner, and at the annual general The necessity of keeping the country open and killing the foxes where The Lanarkshire and Renfrezvshire Hunt. 45 under ordinary conditions. man, for the glories of the chase had departed, and when hounds were out meeting it was decided that the Master and hunt staff should carry on in the best possible way. It was an unenviable task for Master and hunts-

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