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present, and it really did one good to see such 

 steady going cards as Captain Boyce and Farley 

 spinning round the room in the giddy waltz with 

 all the zest they display in a good forty minutes 

 across country. Sir Beaumont Dixie, exuber- 

 ant and happy, contributed to the pleasure of the 

 evening by bringing his lady with him, and Lord 

 James Douglas, assisted by Lord Hastings, and 

 one or two more of the right sort, performed a 

 pas suel to the delight of all beholders. A more 

 complete success than the whole affair I never 

 saw, and it leads me to think that, after all there 

 is something in Masonry more than we outsiders 

 have been taught to believe ; for when such men 

 as Lord Carington and Colonel Burnaby, and 

 lots of others, don the apron and go in for that 

 sort of thing it surely must be worth taking up. 

 The hours flew by fast, as they always do when 

 spent most happily, and I crept unwillingly to 

 bed not long before the streaks of day appeared, 

 dreaming of happy faces and all sorts of things, 

 until the continued rapping at the door told me 

 I was in fairyland, but that the sun was up and 

 shining, and the meet at Baggrave a reality. 

 Thank goodness, it is twelve o'clock instead of 

 eleven, and Colonel meets us looking as fresh as 

 a daisy, and looking as if he had been up hours, 

 and never I should think, was there a greater 

 run upon his liquors. His cherry brandy was 

 voted by all to be the best ever tasted, and as 

 ladies joined in the vote, it was carried unani- 

 mously. Add to such hospitality a capital cover 

 with a fox in it, and you have a faint idea of 



