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we all were, so Fred came and told us, and we were greatly 

 relieved at finding ourselves right after all. 



Most of us came home from there, having had forty- 

 seven minutes of very quick work. 



Among those out were: B. Chew, M.F.H.; Bob and Mrs. 

 Strawbridge; Mrs. A. J. A. Devereux; Horace B. Hare; 

 Fred and Mrs. Sturges; Isaac H. Clothier, Jr.; Frederick 

 Phillips, Jr.; the Misses Ellen Mary and Eugenia Cassatt; 

 R. Nelson Buckley; "Pick" Harrison; Charlie Munn; 

 Gurnee Munn; Ben Holland; E. V. Dougherty; and Miss 

 Emily Barclay. 



Wednesday, loth January, 19 17 

 One does not quite know whether one ought to describe a 

 Hunt Ball as the meeting-place of young widows in ash 

 cloth and sashes, bold bad men and foxhunters, — whom 

 the impossible one Wilde once described as the unspeak- 

 able pursuers of the uneatable, — or whether as the best 

 dance in the world, provided one has wined and dined 

 sufficiently beforehand. It is the sort of thing one enjoys 

 enormously, or you do not enjoy it at all. 



Hunt balls in Philadelphia do not come every year, and 

 from its success, I guess 'most every one enjoyed it; at any 

 rate, it had been ten years since the last one, so no one 

 could be tired of them. 



The President, Mr. Beale, appointed Messrs. Benjamin 

 Chew, M.F.H., T. DeWitt Cuyler, William S. Ellis, 

 Horace B. Hare, and W. Plunket Stewart a committee to 

 arrange for the ball, which they did to perfection. 



Mrs. Chew arranged the quadrille, in which there were 

 six sets, or forty-eight foxhunters in all, and, after a lot of 

 amusing rehearsing, all felt equal to the occasion, or, at 

 least, said they did. 



