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Mr. C. Hodgson, Mr. Ricardo, Mr. R. Fenwick, 

 Mr. Foxhall Keene, Captain Rennie, and Mr. W. 

 Gale. The fox of the afternoon did his best to 

 drown the field, swimming the river Whissendine, 

 which had a flood tide. Three young subalterns, 

 who had evidently been practising swimming 

 their chargers, plunged boldly into the stream. 

 The horses got out of their depth or got caught 

 by a hidden wire, for all bobbed under and parted 

 company with their riders. Harry Maiden was 

 one of those not to be headed by cold water, and 

 it was bad luck for this band of hardy divers that 

 hounds checked on the opposite bank. 



The fates were very unkind to the hunt staff, 

 for just before Christmas turned Gillard was again 

 incapacitated by a heavy fall, and Harry Maiden, 

 his first lieutenant, hunted hounds, though himself 

 sore and crippled, being credited with twenty-five 

 falls up to that time. The second whip, Fred 

 South, had extinguished his chances early in the 

 season by jumping into a stone-pit, so that Bob 

 Knott was looked to as the mainstay of the pack, 

 until he was knocked out of the saddle in a gate- 

 way. 



Harry Maiden had the luck to score a gallop of 

 great excellence from Coston Covert to Gunby 

 Gorse on December 19th, the time being twenty- 

 five minutes. The line was about the best that 

 could possibly have been taken, and so quickly 

 were hounds away with their huntsman, that only 

 six lucky men got with them Mr. Foxhall Keene, 

 Mr. Ricardo, Mr. V. Hemery, Mr. Tom Rudkin. 



