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hounds, giving beautiful tongue, and, swinging right- 

 handed, crossed a swamp on the ice and made a mile and a 

 half point before turning, and finally brought us nearly- 

 back to the find. The Jelly Dogs ran the legs off almost 

 the entire field, only seven of us going to the bitter end, and 

 we were about all in. "Buzzy" Smith was hunting the 

 hounds, and, as we were jogging down a road with very 

 high banks on either side, we heard a crushing noise, and a 

 dark object landed head-first in a bush along the roadside. 

 It picked itself up, and turned out to be Charlie Da Costa, 

 none the worse for wear. Next Miss "Letty" McKeim fell 

 in a brook; the water was cold, but felt good, I guess, for 

 she stayed on with us, being the only surviving lady; the 

 rest of our first flight being Ben Chew, Plunket Stewart, 

 and Gilbert Mather. It was evidently a fox's line, and not 

 a rabbit, the beagles were running. 



Tea, with something in it, tasted pretty good when we 

 finally came in and joined the rest of the field who had 

 fizzed out at varying stages in the run, among them being: 

 the Misses Josephine and Dorothy Mather; Mrs. Reeve; 

 Mrs. Chew; Prince Paul Troubetzkoy; Victor and Mrs. 

 Mather; R. Penn Smith; Williams and Mrs. Cadwallader; 

 and Mrs. John Converse. 



After tea we motored to Chesterland, where Plunket 

 Stewart was to be our host for the remainder of the week; 

 the party consisting of Messrs. Stewart, Devereux, Chew, 

 Kerr, Lloyd, and Reeve. 



After seeing that the Radnor hounds and the forty- 

 seven horses that came up from the Radnor country had 

 arrived, and giving strict orders to the very accommodat- 

 ing proprietor of the Unionville Hotel, Mr. Newlin, where 

 our horses were stabled, that no groom was to be sold enough 

 liquor to make him drunk, and after filling up a few cracks 



