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LEAVES FROM A HUNTING DIARY 



country to ride over, offering, as it does, such variety in the 

 obstacles that have to be negotiated, and by many, including 

 Mr. Grossman, is much preferred to the Roothings. 



Late in the afternoon we found a brace of foxes at Colonel 

 Lockwood's, but had not scent enough to push them, and we 

 finished up a very indifferent day's sport by drawing Loughton 

 Shaws and a wood behind Birch Hall blank. 



Corporal Audley Blyth, D.C.O. Imperial Yeomanry 



Everyone was very depressed at the news from the front, 

 the retreat from Spion Kop, where so many of our gallant 

 soldiers had lost their lives. 



Fred Green told me that his son Sydney, who was going 

 out as a yeomanry trooper, found that he had plenty of real 

 hard work to do, getting up at 5.30 every morning, grooming 

 his own horse, ike. (see p. 221). 



