MR. F. GREEN SECURES HIS USUAL GOOD START 



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he sat easily on one of his well-bred hunters. Our ex-Master, in habiliment 

 rarely seen, mackintosh of length — hue no longer white — that must have 

 done service in past days on the flags. 



Roly, in his wonderful agricolas or agropholos, warranted to keep your 

 knees dry and add seven pounds to your weight ; Mr. F. Green, in coat of 

 pink to match his cheeks — he hunted long before nursing aprons were 

 invented ; Miss F. Green, in habit neat ; and Miss Buxton equally defying 

 the elements ; Mr. and Mrs. Weston Crocker, and Miss Georgie Waters, 

 on her long-tailed black, in waterproof becoming of slaty hue ; Miss E. 

 Quare, Miss E. Jones, Mr. D. Grossman, drab all but the hands (such 

 gloves must have been hand-knitted) ; his soldier brother-in-law, Mr. Daw- 

 son ; then Mr. Giles, Mr. John White, Mr. Howard, Mr. George Brown, 

 Mr. Marriage, jun., the Admiral, Mr. G. H. Lee, Mr. C. E. Ridley, drab, 

 all drab, as drab as they could be. 



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Norwood 



Pluvius-defying came Georgie Dawson ; Mr. Head, of Canadian renown ; 

 Mr. Waters, ]M'r. Caton, in neat black or grey hunting coats. In pink, full 

 pink, :\Ir. Vickers; hidden pink, Mr. Jones, on the " Colonel;" Mr. Newman 

 Gilbey on " Cedric." 



To Norwood, I said. We never reached it. Hounds were laid on at 

 the gallop to a holloa near Envilles, and a pretty Une was worked forward 

 and eked out past Little Laver Hall to Brick Kilns. And later, a leash 

 of foxes were roused in Man Wood, and a run began that the season shall 

 hardly see equalled. Breaking the White Roothing side of ]\Ian Wood, 

 four—and four only— Mr. Jones, Miss E. Jones, Mr. F. Green, and Mr. 

 George Brown, of Bobbingworth Hall Farm — got away on terms with 

 hounds, and the advantage they gained at the start they never lost to the 



