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town, and sent to the Rose Tree a couple of 

 months ago, and he was thought to be rather 

 tame, so much so that one of the ladies incautiously 

 put her fingers inside and he did not offer to 

 bite it. 



"At about half past ten o'clock in the morn- 

 ing the last straggler had come into the 'meet,' 

 and a few minutes before eleven o'clock the fox 

 was taken out in his box and carried to a good 

 distance and to such a position that none of the 

 company could tell where it was taken to. 



"Their appearance, dressed in their hunting 

 costume, is exceedingly suggestive. Some wore 

 short jackets, ordinary trousers tucked into their 

 riding boots, and carrying riding sticks with a loop 

 at the end, and all kinds of hats from the silk to 

 the little jockey skull cap. One old hunter tucked 

 up the tails of his coat and made a jacket of it, 

 another came out in a white flannel jacket, and 

 still another wore a costume somewhat like a 

 London 'old clo' man, one short overcoat with 

 another shorter one over it, and white corduroy 

 trousers were plenty. One of the ladies, Miss M., 

 w^as dressed in a blue water-proof riding habit, 

 rather long, and the other, Mrs. W., in a short, 

 well-fitting one of black, and both wore regular 

 jockey caps. 



