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"Boarder"; Harry Barclay; Ben Holland on "Ji"^"; Miss 

 Barclay on "Sandy"; Mrs. Antelo Devereux, who was 

 given the brush; Horace Hare on "Plainsman"; and 

 Arthur and Mrs. Dickson. 



Most of us met again in the afternoon at the Rose Tree 

 Races, which were quite above par. 



30/^ September, 1916 

 Horse and Hound Show Week at Bryn Mawr, always 

 more or less strenuous, was quite up to its usual form this 

 year; and with parties every night and cub hunting and 

 beagle trials at daybreak, the hours of sleep the hunting 

 fraternity had during the week could nearly be counted on 

 one's fingers. 



Mr. Ellis's breakfast after the beagle trials at his Fox 

 Hill Farm was a great success; but the real event of the 

 week was the dinner dance given by Mr. and Mrs. Valentine 

 at their Cafe au Concourse Hippique, at Highland Farm. 



In addition to the beautiful dancing girls, to entertain 

 the guests, was a wrestling bear. After the bear had done 

 its turn with its keeper, and had been put safely away in the 

 cellar, it was unanimously decided that John Rush Street, 

 of Harford County, should wrestle with it, so amid much 

 hilarity the bear was brought up from the cellar again. 

 The bear stood upon his hind legs sparring with Rush 

 a few moments, and then they clinched. Everything was 

 apparently going according to the Marquis of Queensberry 

 rules until Rush hit the bear below the belt. This foul 

 evidently escaped the notice of Foxhall Keene, the referee, 

 but not Mr. Bear, for he immediately tightened his hold on 

 Rush, who suddenly became very pale, but was at once 

 rescued from the bear's loving embrace by its keeper. Need- 

 less to say, after that, no one else volunteered. 



