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