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The Company from the Mauritius, 

 • The Forty thieves all of a row 



The prancings of horsemen ambitious, 



The capers of Madame Nouveau ; 

 And Agra, etcetera, the charter 



' Bout which all the world daily chat, 

 And while one says, " what can they be arler ? " 



Another asks, " what are they at ?" 

 But really I cannot discover 



How all this can interest you. 

 Goodnight to the season !— 'tis over — 



Goodnight ! Mr. Editor too. 



NiM East. 



The old hunt, as already noted, came to an end when 

 paperchasing began, but in more recent times various 

 private packs have at one time and another enjoyed an 

 evanescent popularity. In 1885-86, for instance, Lord 

 Herbrand Russell (as he then was), the present Duke of 

 Bedford, who was then in the Guards, and on the late 

 Lord Dufferin's staff, had a pack which used to hunt 

 anywhere and everywhere excepting in Calcutta, and. if 

 memory serves the Editor right, was whipped into by the 

 late Lord Ava, who was then Lord Clandeboye. Mr. A. 

 Milton has always been keen on hunting and has on and 

 off had a pack of hounds of one sort or another, generally 

 half fox-hounds and the rest 6i ttoXXoi. But it remained 

 for that sporting young nobleman, the Earl of Suffolk 

 and Berkshire, to make the only determined effort to 

 resuscitate the old days, and whilst on Lord Curzon's staff 

 he hunted Calcutta for two seasons 1899 to 1902, with a 

 pack which he had sent out from home to him, and he 

 showed fair sport, but came to the ultimate conclusion 

 that the country and the climate were all against hounds, 

 and finally gave it up. Whilst they lasted, however, the 

 S. Sz. B. Hounds were a decided acquisition, and no more 

 popular Master ever carried the horn than his Lordship. 



