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LEAVES FROM A HUNTING DIARY 



30th October, '96, had I met Mr. Charrington out with Mr. 

 Ouare's Harriers at Roydon, riding a very good-looking grey 

 pony, formerly the property of the late Mrs. Arkwright, and 

 apparently in the heyday of health and vigour. On November 

 1st he sent me the above photograph. It came back from the 

 engravers on December 3rd, and showing it to my wife she 

 made the remark, "Charrington? I saw the death of a Mr. 



Cyril Norman Charrington and his favourite hunter "Bullfinch" 



Charrington in the S/a/idard yesterday." Not until I had seen 

 the ill news myself could I believe that it was the same with 

 whom I had parted only a month previously. Known to me 

 as a good sportsman and a kind-hearted and genial friend in 

 the hunting field, it seems inexpressibly sad that death in the 

 shape of typhoid fever should have claimed for his own one so 

 young. He was only 30. 



My notes for season 1897- 1898 ^^^ ^^^ and far between. My first 

 gallop Avith fox-hounds was on Monday, January 24th. Hounds had met 

 at Dagenham in the morning ; riding out late I came across them near 



