who, in the August number of that year, describes their 

 inauguration. Hunting was natu-rally a somewhat more 

 expensive game than paperchasing, and the subscribers 

 perhaps did not have one-half as much fun for their money 

 as we now do for our modest Rs. 20 per annum, which is 

 the maximum cost of Membership of the Calcutta 

 Paperchase Club. They used to hunt over the very 

 country with which we are all to-day so very familiar, and 

 wTiting in the Bengal Sporting Magazine \n 1833, a sporting 

 correspondent said in recounting his memories of the 

 joyous days that had gone and of the gallops he had 

 had with the Calcutta Hounds : — 



"It was on the 6th of January 1826 A. D. that our fixture was Gurreah 

 Haut (beyond the sixth milestone: Ed.); instead of crossing the bridge, a& 

 usual, we turned short into the covers on the left ( Jungle we gallop through 

 nowadays every time the fixture is at this place. Ed.) where we soon found, and 

 away went one of the best jackals that ever was whelped, with old ' Modesty ' 

 close at his brush, pointing for Russapuglah (The point was evidently in the 

 direction of the present location of the Tollygunge Club. Ed.). I got a good 

 and a fair start at the time, but being on a new purchase who was a slow one, 

 the pace beat me, though, thank God, by the time we reached Rypore Garden, 

 I had plenty of companions in misfortune ; • bellows to mend ' being the order 

 of the day. Our huntsman on ' Twilight,' our Mainstay W. N., Esq., on his 

 dear old Grey Mare, P. M., Esq., on the Miller and the Honourable J. E. were 

 the fortunate few who really saw the run and lived up to the hounds ; they were 

 never off their line for a minute nor turned a yard to right or left till they 

 ran their jackal to ground under the Prince's House at Russapuglah, point 

 blank five miles from where they found him. It was a smait thing^--short — 

 sharp, and I would almost add decisive, at all events the hounds accounted 

 for him and well deserved to have tasted him. It was the ultra pace every mile 

 of the way, and the fields were left in all directions. JNIany a clipping run 

 might I narrate from my memoranda during those prosperous times, but I fear 

 they would to our general readers prove uninteresting ; suffice it that during that 

 period everyone united in saying that the internal economy, as well as the 

 field management of the pack, had flourished in a manner till then un- 

 known in India. " 



" Tarquin," the historian, who penned this account 

 of those early doings of the Calcutta Hunt, little thought 



