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became Sir Frederick Carrington, K.C.M.G. Having 

 settled down at Mafeking, after his long period of 

 campaigning, Sir Frederick's thoughts naturally ran 

 again in the direction of fox-hunting. Even as a 

 youngster at Cheltenham College he had been an 

 enthusiastic votary of Diana. Upon winter half- 

 holidays, indeed, his pony was often to be seen 

 waiting for him just outside the College gate. The 

 instant school was dismissed the lad was on his 

 pony's back, galloping away into the country, to nick 

 in for an afternoon run with the Cotswold. Fox- 

 hunting and soldiering seem naturally to go hand in 

 hand. The Duke of Wellington evidently thought 

 so when he kept foxhounds in the Peninsula, during 

 his occupation of that country at the close of the 

 Peninsular war. 



The Bechuanaland Hounds were inaugurated by 

 the purchase of three good hounds, Darling, Gossa- 

 mer, and Venus, from the Cape pack at £7 apiece. 

 Colonel Carrington had among his officers of the 

 Bechuanaland Border Pohce another enthusiastic 

 fox-hunter. Captain Lucy. Between them they soon 

 got together a highly creditable pack. Five more 

 couple were got up from the Cape, four couple from 

 Natal, and at different times various drafts from the 

 Holderness, Cotswold, Bedale, and Isle of Wight. 

 In those days they hunted all the year round, twice 

 a week, at daylight — a remarkable feat, considering 



