CUBHUNTING IN AUGUST. 20I 



minutes when " a mutual indiscretion " caused the normal 

 position to be "reversed." And reversed it was in the 

 case of the young man above mentioned. 



\'ery fortunately for him, willing hands were within 

 hail to rescue him from his dangerous position, or he would 

 have run a o-ood chance of beino- crushed to death : for it 



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took the rescuers something like a quarter of an hour to 

 extricate him. Mr. Percy Hargreaves, a welter weight, 

 whose good offices to Mr. Bevan have already been 

 mentioned, was chietiy instrumental in bringing about this 

 result, as also in releasing another rider, who was hung up 

 immediately afterwards, by his foot getting fast in the 

 stirrup. To reach this latter victim Mr. Hargreaves, like 

 a good Samaritan, waded through water up to his tops. 



This season (1885-6) was prematurely closed by the 

 lamented death of Mr. Hervey Foster, to whom further 

 allusion is made in our account of the Rundells Race 

 Meetings. 



The season 1886-7 opened early. Two brace of cubs 

 were killed in August, an achievement which Bailey notes 

 as "a record for this country," adding, "this was the best 

 cubbing season we ever had." On December 5th, 1887, 

 Bailey chronicles that rare event, a very good hunting run 

 from Blackmore. He says : " Found in College Wood, ran 



