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and said, "A rare day for hunting, this." How we should hke to have 

 seen him on some other hack. At Fyfield we heard that ^Ir. C. E. Green 

 had met with an accident when hunting with the Bicester that would keep 

 him, it was feared, out of the saddle for some time. Bad luck, this, at the 

 end of the season. Also that Major Carter, thanks to a friend who had 

 broken his collar-bone, had dropped in for the loan of fifteen hunters in a 

 good grass country. We fancy the ]Major will enjoy himself, and the 

 horses too, for they will be ridden straight and ridden fairly. Unfortunate 

 that " Spitfire" was hovs de combat, and Mrs. Carter reduced to wheels. 



Saturday would not have been uneventful had we nothing further to 

 record than that Mr. R. Y. Bevan's new gorse at Willingale (there was a 

 good deal of barley about it) was drawn for the first time. That it lies 

 quiet and is well looked after, the hare jumping up proved. Pity that the 







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hounds ate her, Mr. Quare ! and that Mr. Percy Whitaker, Master of the 

 Essex and Suffolk, should have witnessed such riot. Previous to this we 

 had drawn Witney Wood without finding — a very common occurrence, 

 for I believe I am right in stating that not a single fox has been found in 

 the Forest Hall coverts this season, and I had received practical proof and 

 demonstration of what red ribbon means in a horse's tail, as through stirrup 

 leather and boot the shoe left its mark. But the same animal had a much 

 better innings with a friend of mine a few days previously, for, having fairly 

 pinned him in a corner, he had him on the leg three times before he would 

 let him out, and for some time so benumbed with pain was the limb that 

 my friend hardly knew whether it belonged to him or the doctor. 



Now there is red ribbon and red ribbon, and to the majority of those 

 who hunt it means " Kick if you touch me." That's all right, but when 



