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amount of it came in very useful. We first 

 paraded through the town to attract a few 

 more riders to swell the field. 



The bag fox on these occasions was gener- 

 ally taken out towards the forest on the sea- 

 board, and we often had quite a good gallop 

 over the sand dunes there. To their credit 

 be it said that the street hounds not only 

 hunted their fox well, but often caught 

 him. 



When nothing else was available we hunted 

 paper. One paper chase ended disastrously, 

 a young Frenchman was run away with and 

 his head banged against a tree. Several 

 ladies tried to bring him to, and the most 

 efficacious way seemed to be by taking off his 

 boots, and beating the soles of his feet hard. 

 He must have been sore literally from head to 

 foot for several days after, as it was after- 

 wards discovered his leg was broken. He, 

 however, eventually recovered from all his 

 injuries and treatment. 



Such are my most outstanding recollections 

 of hunting abroad. Days full of sunshine 



