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will not hunt paper again ; at least not the kind of paper we are speaking of. 

 Nor will Mrs, Murray who used to ride to great purpose and very hard. Where 

 is Mrs. Saunders who used to ride most regularly in the early eighties? Where 

 is Capt. Rochefort, R.a.. as he then was, Waller and Harrison, the two latter 

 very constant attendants at the Chases. " The Duke " Mr. Macnair on " Nancy " 

 and many many others. Behar used to send its representatives and I remember 

 riding against, or alongside Jimmy McLeod and Rowland Hudson who were then 

 in their prime. It is getting late and I am afraid what I have put down will not 

 be of much use to you. What I think you ought to point out however in your 

 account of the Cup Chase is that Euler was abcut 31 years of age when he 

 arrived in India in 81 or 82 and that he is now 57 years of age. I think that is 

 a great performance finishing where he did yesterday." 



The last "witness" it is proposed to call at this .stage 

 of the case is Mr. Dudley Myers who in his speech from 

 the Chair at the Paperchase Dinner on loth March 1906 

 said : — 



"When I had the honour of presiding at this dinner last year, I little 

 thought that I should be called upon to again cccupy a similar position 

 twelve months later. Had I done so, I might possibly have dealt less fully 

 with my subject than I did on the last occasion, and so have left myself 

 with more varied material for my remarks to-night for, as it is, I find 

 myself more or less confined to current topics. Before, however, proceeding to 

 discuss these I sliould like to clear up one or two points in connection with the 

 remote past which I think are of general interest. To begin with, the date of the 

 first paperchase has always been accepted on the authority of " C C.M.'^ as 

 having been some lime in 1870, but curiously enough, the newspaper reports of 

 my remarks on this subject last year caught the eye of an old friend of mine at 

 home who wrote to me that he was able to tell me the history of the first paper- 

 chase and that it was got up either in December 1868 or in January 1869 by Mr. 

 Brancker of Messrs. Ewing & Co., Mr. Butler of Messrs. Gillanders Arbuthnot & 

 Co., Mr. Beebee of the Educational Department and a few other friends. The 

 meet was at the Racquet Court whence the field proceeded to the Tollygunge 

 country. My informant, Mr. Bigge, tells me that he and a few others spent 

 the night previous to the chase in tearing up paper for scent, and I am glad to 

 think that our hares have long since ceased to be called upon to add this burden 

 to their already heavy labours, otherwise the days of paperchasing would, I fear, 

 long ere this have been numbered among the memories of the past. Last year 

 I stated that I believed (erroneously as it has proved) that Calcutta was the home 

 of paperchasing on horseback, a remark which occasioned some controversy, 

 France, Spain, Jersey and Malta being all mentioned by my critics as probably 

 possessing a claim to the parentage of the sport. 



