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Washington-Single, and Mr. Gordon Lobb were among those who rode to 

 the meet and back for exercise, none of them vohmteermg to go on to 

 Romford to assist the candidates for ParUamentary honours. And what a 

 narrow squeak the successful candidate had ! To come down from 1,827 

 to 125 will remove, as Mr. Carlton Roberts observed, the dangers of over- 

 confidence created by four-figure majorities ; and we may add, whether 

 Tory or Radical, for we recognise no politics in the huntmg field. 



Mrs. Bennett on "My Treasure" 



Mrs. Bennett is rather proud, and justly so, of her Htde 

 mare ''My Treasure," on which she is here depicted, since she 

 bred, broke and made the mare herself into as clever a little 

 hunter as you shall meet with in a day's march, e'en though it 

 retains some of the impatience of youth— sire " Knappgelt.'' dam 

 " La Mascotte " (the latter carried Mrs. Bennett most brilliandy 

 with the Essex Hounds for twelve seasons). Perfect^ hands and 

 perfect seat, Mrs. Bennett yields the palm to no one in the ease 

 and grace with which she 'negotiates the intricate fences of the 

 Essex Country. 



