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and not especially classical, made the hit of the evening. 

 It ran something like this: 



** Around her neck she wore a yellow ribbon, 

 She wore it in the summer-time and in the month of May, 

 And if you asked her, why the hell she wore it, 

 She wore it for her True Love, who was far, far away." 



Had Mr. Surtees ever had a day with the Rose Tree, he 

 would certainly have added one more to his already won- 

 derful list of hunting characters. " Soapy Sponge " or " Fa- 

 cey Rumford " never, in their most intoxicated moments, 

 excelled the actions of a certain highly illuminated Rose 

 Tree retainer that haunted the dining-room all evening. 



Among those hunting and at the supper were: Sam and 

 Mrs. Riddle; Walter and Mrs. Jeffords; Dr. and Mrs. Gib- 

 bon; Miss Gertrude Conway; Miss Welsh; Walter and Mrs. 

 Roach; Dr. James P. Hutchinson; Roy and Miss Jackson; 

 Emanuel Hey; Alex, and Mrs. Sellers; Colonel Glendining; 

 Mr. and Mrs. Barklie; Ivan Fox; Miss Cohen; Mr. and 

 Mrs. Samuel Henderson; Francis V. Lloyd; William M. 

 Kerr; Edward Ilsley; and William F. Reeve. 



THE DEATH OF "LUCY GLITTERS" 



Tuesday, ^th January, 192 1 

 Sometime ago in this journal the question was asked — 

 "If a certain M.F.H. has named the vixen that his hounds 

 find in Brooks's Wood, "Lucy Glitters," what is the name 

 of the dog fox in Innes's Wood ? ** 



The question has also been asked in the field, and as for 

 the answers — well, probably discretion is the better part 

 of valor after all; but that there was an affaire de cceur be- 

 tween the auburn-haired vixen and her stalwart neighbor 

 seems quite evident; at any rate, she was visiting her 



