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Those In the best ot the first run, besides the Master, were: 

 Miss B. deCoppet; Miss Ellen Mary Cassatt; Miss Eu- 

 genia Cassatt, going great guns on her new horse, "Lord 

 Culpepper"; Miss Rose Dolan; Dave and Mrs. Sharp; 

 Ned Blabon; John Converse; Bob and Mrs. Strawbridge 

 and Bob, Jr.; Tommy Wanamaker; Henry and Mrs. Col- 

 lins; and Ben Holland 



During luncheon at "Woodcrest" on Sunday, the prin- 

 cipal topic of conversation naturally being on hunting, the 

 hostess told a good story on herself and family that was 

 quite apropos. 



It seems that Mrs. Gurnee Munn, while hunting on Sat- 

 urday, was riding slowly down a lane behind Mr. Bodine, 

 the field being off to one side. 



Mr. Bodine, thinking he was alone, was talking to him- 

 self, and, coming to a flight of bars, dismounted to let them 

 down, saying to himself as he did so, "Thank God, there 

 are no Strawbridges or Munns here now!" 



Needless to say, Mrs. Munn stayed discretly behind a 

 stack of corn fodder, but thoroughly enjoyed the remark. 



**SAM KIRK'S BREAKFAST" 



Saturday, i-^th December, 19 19 

 Women, they say, date things from the time their babies 

 are born (married women, of course), while men now seem 

 to date any event as either happening before the War or 

 just the other day; so, without looking it up in my diary, 

 to see what sort of a run we had the last time Sam Kirk and 

 his good wife gave a hunt breakfast, I '11 say to-day's party 

 and hunt was quite up to pre-war standards, — yes, and a 

 little better than pre-war, barring the weather. If I remem- 

 ber rightly, the ground was hard as nails the last time 



