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hunting, so you politely let It go out. Yes, your horse Is 

 here; there's the faithful Patrick walking him about. 

 Horace Hare, M.F.H., comes out, gets up on "Plainsman," 

 shortens his leathers, gives a few Instructions to Will 

 Leverton, who nods to Harry Brown, the first whipper-ln, 

 gives a note on his horn, and the season Is on. 



Mr. Harrison's meadow, always the first draw, was 

 blank to-day, so hounds go up-country to Sharp's Wood, 

 where, as soon as a hound speaks, Dave Sharp is all ex- 

 citement. The fox Is viewed away and Dave gallops up, 

 saying, "This Is the greatest running fox In the country. 

 I've fed him all summer on beefsteaks and mutton chops; 

 he's eaten forty-two dollars' worth since the 15th of July." 

 But a few playful bucks from the Master of Craft colt he 

 is riding puts a stop to any further praises of his hand-fed 

 fox. He may be a stout fox, or he may be suffering from 

 the effects of his last Berwyn beefsteak; at any rate, he 

 won't give us a gallop to-day, for he pops back to covert 

 and goes to earth, much to every one's disgust, and a lot 

 of good-natured chafiing at the Master of Hawthorne. 



Mr. Wayne's Wood, though, produces one of a more 

 straight-necked variety, for he goes out the upper end of 

 the covert, crosses Into the PaoII Barrens, swings left- 

 handed, and gives us a very nice forty-five minutes to 

 earth on the Boyer Davis Farm. 



There were forty-six In the field. Including the Master, 

 Benjamin Chew, on "Oviat"; Fred and Mrs. Sturges, 

 just over from Fairfield for the season, Fred on "Pocono" 

 and the Mrs. on "Frosty"; Rowland Comly; Harry Harri- 

 son; Mr. Fiske; Mr. Beale; George Brooke III on "Black- 

 bird"; Bayard Rives, of New York, on a borrowed chest- 

 nut mare; Antelo Devereux; Ned Blabon; Dave and Mrs. 

 Sharp; Miss Rose Dolan on "Circus"; Henry and Mrs. 



