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Lord Rookwood, looking, as Mr. George Hart remarked to me, ten years 

 younger, and another old master of the Essex who carries his years lightly, 

 and rides with the nerve of five-and-twenty ; Mr. C. E. Green and his 

 fidus Achates, Mr. R. Y, Bevan. The list so far official, the remainder 

 alphabetically. 



" For here all are equal — no class legislation, 

 No privilege hinders ; no family pride ; 

 In the 'image of war ' show the pluck of the nation ; 

 Ride, ancient patrician ! democracy, ride." 



And before the sun set, ride they could, and did, in the sharp brief scurry 

 that redeemed the day, from Matching Park to ground anent Belgium 

 Springs. Mr. Avila, Mr. Frank Ball, Mrs. Bennett, Mrs. F. Ball, Mr. 

 E. A. Ball, Mr. A. S. Bowlby and Miss Bowlby, Mr. W. H. Baddeley and 

 son, Mr. Ford Barclay, Mr. W. H. Pemberton-Barnes, Mr. Basham, Mr. 

 Barrow, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Buckmaster, Miss G. and Miss M. Blyth, 

 Mr. H. A. Blyth and Master Rupert Blyth, Capt. and Mrs. Bruce, Miss M. 

 Buxton, Mrs. G. Buxton, Major and Mrs. Carter, Mr. E. E. Cockett, 

 Mr. W. Cook, Mr. and Mrs. Weston Crocker, Rev. L. Capel-Cure, Mr. and 

 Miss Capel-Cure, Mr. and Mrs. Grossman, Messrs. Carr (2), Mr. Seymour 

 Caldwell, Mr. Cooper, Mr. G. H. Dawson, Mr. N. Dawson, Mr. Docwra, 

 Mrs. Howard Fowler, Mr. Foster, Messrs. Furze (2), Mr. S. Fitch, Miss E. 

 Gilbey, Mr. Guy Gilbey, Mr. Newman Gilbey, Mr. George Hart and son, 

 Mr. T. Harrison, Mr. J. Harris, Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Hill, Mr. Horner, jun., 

 Mr. T. R. Hull, Mr. Howard, Mr. G. Harris, V.S., Mr. H. E. Jones, Mr. 

 G. H. Lee, Mr. Henry Lawrence, V.S., Dr. Love, Mr. F. E. Loyd, Mr. 

 R. C. Lyall, Mr. Lowndes, Mr. H Lines, Mr. E. Lobb, Miss E. Morgan, 

 Miss M. Morgan, Mr. Morris, Mr. Henry Miller and two sons, Mrs. Neill, 

 Mr. L. Pelly, Miss Pelly, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Price, Mr. Patchett, Q.C., 

 Mr. E. Qaare, M.H., Miss Quare, Captain Ricardo, Mrs. Hine, Mr. Cecil 

 Savill, Mr. Washington Single, Mr. D. Cunliffe Smith, Mrs. R. Cunlifife 

 Smith, Mr. A. R. Steele and son, Mr. J. Swire, Mr. H. Sworder, Mr. 

 Scruby, jun., Mr. Usborne, M.P., and the Misses and Mr. Usborne, Mr. 

 Waters, Mr. T. White, Rev. M. Wilson, Major Wilson, General Sir 

 Evelyn Wood, V.C. 



A late arrival at the meet precludes any attempt at completing a list of 

 the carriage folk, but there were certainly not so many as usual. Had the 

 weather held, the meet of '97 would have marked a record in the attendance 

 of cyclists — and for that reason some of us were cynical enough to welcome 

 the downpour ; two hunting men were nearly killed last season in our 

 country by bicyclists, who, in a crowd of horsemen going from covert to 

 covert are, they must permit me to say, very much out of place both 

 in regard to their own and their friends' safety. A slight shy, the machine 

 is over, a foot through the front wheel, horse ruined, machine smashed, 

 rider killed. 



To Man Wood at once, and the shine off your boots and the gloss off 

 your hats, my brave seigneurs, ere the covert was reached. The two grey 

 habits * looked neater than ever in the dull atmosphere, and mud proof 

 apparently, but the black attires showed every splash. A fox in Man Wood, 

 for we all viewed him, and we all voted that he was big enough to give the 

 run of the season, but no one (not even the man in the cart who saw him 

 come out three times) would grant that he had headed him, and blooded the 

 hounds so close to covert. 



" If you cannot find anywhere else come to Down Hall," said my lord. 



Mrs. Hine's and Miss Gilbey's. 



