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suddenly froze up while it was trying to run off, leaving 

 the ground with a coating of ice from four to six inches 

 thick, not in spots, but all over the country. Hunting, of 

 course, was out of the question, as it was impossible to 

 ride the country, or for hounds to get about. 



After a fortnight of the ice, it began to snow every few 

 days until there were twenty-eight inches on the ground, 

 with the mercury down to io° below zero on two occasions, 

 and on Tuesday, February 5th, 191 8, the glass at the 

 Racquet Club in town was 3*^ below zero at lunch-time, 

 the coldest on record for the middle of the day. 



There's a touch of spring in the air to-day, with rivers 

 of water running in every direction; but it will take sev- 

 eral days of good warm sunshine to make it fit to hunt. 



A lineman, digging a hole for a telegraph pole in Bryn 

 Mawr, told me the other day there were forty-four inches 

 of frost in the ground, so when that begins to come out, 

 there will be plenty of mud and soft going to plow through. 



Mrs. Edward H. Carle, of Millbrook, who came here 

 for the hunting at the close of the Millbrook Season, and 

 has taken Louis Meimbresse's cottage, is rather out of 

 luck, but maybe now the weather is breaking, she may get 

 a run for her money after all. She brought along a very 

 nice string of horses; but like all the others in the country, 

 they have been eating their heads off of late. 



Thursday, i^th February, 191 8 

 Having been snowed up for so long, hounds evidently 

 decided to celebrate to-day, and after meeting at New- 

 town Square at one-thirty, and drawing several coverts 

 blank, they settled on the line of a small red pig belonging 

 to Dr. Bartholomew. With a marvellous burst of music 

 that made every one sit up and take notice, they raced 



