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having had an hour and fifty minutes of good galloping, 

 every one was quite ready to call it quits, especially those 

 who had to ride the thirteen miles back to kennels. 



There were very few left at the bitter end; only Horace 

 Hare, M.F.H.; Fred and Mrs. Sturges; Ned Blabon; 

 Antelo and Mrs. Devereux; "Pick" Harrison; Mrs. Bill 

 Clothier; Miss Ruth Wood; "Bill" Warden; Mr. Fiske; 

 and "Jack" Caffery. 



Tuesday, ^ist March, 19 14 

 There is always a great satisfaction in ending anything 

 well, whether it's a story, a love affair, or a hunting season. 

 Hounds did it to-day to the Queen's taste. 



Meeting at the kennels at seven a.m., hounds found 

 their fox in Dr. Bartholomew's Wood, and, although the 

 sun was hot and horses lathered from the start, ran their 

 fox for two hours and twenty minutes with hardly a check 

 worth mentioning. Joe Serrill viewed this fox crossing the 

 Leopard Road, hounds running with a breast-high scent 

 into the Delmas Farm, to Mr. Pepper's, Lockwood's 

 Hollow, Van Meeter's, and Cathcart's Rocks, where a 

 Boy Scout viewed again, then on to William Evans's, the 

 Boyer Davis Farm, and into the Malvern Barrens. 

 Racing through covert, hounds crossed the road into the 

 Rush Hospital, where a man working on a roof viewed 

 again and waved us on up-country; and, keeping Gosh- 

 enville to their right, hounds ran in sight of their fox 

 through an orchard, and, turning homewards, came back 

 to the Barrens, on down through Evans's to the White 

 Horse Farm, where we viewed again, with the fox barely 

 a hundred yards in front of hounds. But Reynard 

 made the wood first, hounds pushing him on to Lock- 

 wood's Hollow; where, as some one said, it was a pity to 



