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crash of the g-ate which Mrs. Carter, gallantly charg-ing-, carried 

 away as her horse slipped up at it, and to thank our buttons we 

 hadn't to come into the road over the high bank which the 

 Master, the huntsman and Captain Bruce tackled just below 

 Stanford Hall Farm, and we were cruising up the road for the 

 bridge over the brook, Mrs. Arkwright being one of the first 

 to jump out over the quickset hedge as she followed the 

 Master's lead. In a few minutes we had run up to Kettlebury 

 Springs after twenty to twenty-five of the best, and before we 



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left them there was time to take stock and note some of the 

 bold young Nimrods, and youthful and fair Dianas who had 

 ridden over this rough country. Guy Edwards and his brother 

 Noel, who later on in the day took a toss which in no way 

 disconcerted him, Charlie Green and his big brother, Vivian, 

 and Eustace Pelly, Harold Marsh, Maurice White * (he'll soon 

 be going into tails) and a boy on a long-tailed bay. Miss 

 Steele, Miss Georgie Waters, and Miss Dorothy Sewell and 

 many more unknown to me, but not forgetting a boy with 

 a big pair of spurs and a very small pony.f 



He got a commission in '99, and sailed for the Cape. 



+ Tom Carr's son. 



