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Saturday, February 26th. At \\'aples Mill. Started late and caught 

 hounds just as they were being thrown into Screens. A large Saturday 

 field out, many faces unknown to me, but I spoke to the following people 

 during the day : Tresham Gilbey, Miss Gold, P. Gold and his wife, Capt. 

 and ^Irs. Bruce, A. J. Edwards, P, M, Evans, Young, Marriage (two), 

 David Christy (two), Ford Barclay, Mr. and Mrs. Grossman, E. and F. 

 Ball, Mrs. and jNIiss \\'aters, Capt. Kortwright, riding his little blood 

 chestnut mare (he was going to be married in June and sailing for India in 

 July) ; C. E. Ridley, W. Ridley, A. Bowlby, Tyndale White, John White, 

 E. Pelly, Edmund Charrington, Rev. Maryon Wilson, C. E. Green, Mrs. 

 Neill, H. E. Jones, ]\Iiss Jones, H. Sworder, F. Avila, W. S. Horner, 

 H. Horner, George Hart, Sheffield Neave, H. J. Price, Sir Evelyn Wood, 

 V.C., F. Green, Miss M. Green, Mrs. Weston Crocker, L. Pelly, A. J. 

 Tweed and H. R. Tweed, Capt. Cairns, Young, Green (Pongo), Lobb, 

 Carr, and Newman Gilbey. 



Screens blank, also Berners Wood, Garnish, Lords and Leaden, it was 

 nearly 4 p.m. when we arrived at Wilson Springs, where we had the mis- 

 fortune to chop a fox to the bitter disappointment of everyone. We then 

 dragged on to Canfield Mount, Canfield Hart, and Canfield Thrift with 

 similar results. In Poplars, however, there was a welcome note directly 

 hounds were thrown in, and a ringing brute he appeared to be at first, but 

 eventually he took a good line by Wilson Springs, past Canfield IMount to 

 Garnetts. 



The ground was so dry that not only did the dust fly up in clouds as 

 horses galloped across the ploughed fields, but it even flew up as hounds ran ; 

 and, curiously enough, scent was much better on] the plough than the 

 grass. 



