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LEAVES EROM A HUNTING DIARY 



lovers of huntinL!;" are under a still deeper obligation to him for 

 the liberal way in which he has always preserved toxes. 



It is a o-Qod omen for the future that his son is as keen 

 about hunting" as ever his father was about polo. 



S. Chisenhale Marsh and -'Wheel of Fortune" 



Frederick Loyd, taken on his favourite hunter, a chestnut 

 mare by " Wakefield."' One of the best animals he ever 

 owned, she has been carrying- him well with the Essex since 

 I.S85, the year he purchased her at Deacon's V.W.H. Reposi- 

 tory, Swindon, at which time she was but a halt-broken 

 four-year-old. 



Bred by John Robson, jun., of Belfast, she was v.h.c. at 

 Dublin Horse Show in 1S85, and in the same year made her 

 first acquaintance with the ditches of Essex, going bang into 

 three the first day she was out. She fell, on an average, once 

 or twice every time Mr. Loyd rode her for the first three 



