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too little, we may justly incur the censure of the male 

 members of the Calcutta Hunt, who are notorious as being 

 at once the most susceptible and gallant body of sportsmen 

 on the face of the globe. Would that in our present case 

 we possessed the capacity of the Tuscan poet for saying 

 the right thing at the right moment, or that of his 

 Apulian confrere^ one Flaccus, better, and more generally, 

 known as Horatius, for graceful versification, and odes 

 ''Ad Lydiam," ''Ad Chloen ^' ! and Ad— many others! 

 For it is borne in upon us that bald prose, such as this is 

 totally inadequate in such a situation as that in which we 

 find ourselves. Could w^e discourse in dactylic hexameters 

 or Iambic trimeters, we should feel ourselves less fore- 

 doomed to a fall than we do at present. 



Odi profanum vulgus et arceo : 

 Favete Unguis : carmina non prius 



Audita Musarum Sacerdos 

 Virginibus puerisque canto ! 



We have, as our erudite readers will no doubt at once 

 discern, been forced after all to get Horace to break 

 the top-rail of the first fence for us, and no better or more 

 polite person, hien entendu, could we have selected to ask 

 our friends to " lend us their ears." 



Diana, one is credibly informed, hated all men — bar one 

 the devoted, the beautiful, the hard-riding and intrepid 

 Hippolytus. It is usually this way — it is always i,ooo to 

 3 bar one even with the stoniest hearted ones ! The Dianas 

 of Ballygunge differ from their patron goddess, we hope, 

 and, since no authoress has come to our aid to write this 

 chapter, this little difference may prove to be our salvation. 



The Ladies' Paperchase Cup, the most unique event 

 in the sporting records of, possibly, the entire world dates 

 back to 1893, the first Ladies' Paperchase Cup having 

 been run on the 15th of March of that year, and since then 

 it has become a regular and well-established fixture. The 

 Ladies of the Calcutta Hunt have numbered amongst 



