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ladder and pole, were called into requisition, and soon made that tree too hot 

 for number one, and down he came like a cat, but merely gave us a ring ot 

 about ten minutes, when he was lost ; but this short spin emptied more 

 than one saddle. Having given number one up, number two was dislodged 

 in a similar way, but this time hounds were laid on quicker, and he gave us 

 a nice gallop of about thirty minutes, but, like his companion, he did not go 

 very straight. It was a merry burst, and everybody enjoyed it, but I never 

 saw so much grief in so short a run ; riders were severely handicapped 

 trying to catch their runaway steeds with top boots full of water, and 

 clothes saturated with rain. 



George Hogarth Dawson 



A good man on any horse was George Uawson before he 

 met with the accident to his hip in a polo match at Silver Leys 

 in 1880. Inflammation set up by the accident stopped his 

 hunting altogether for some time. Although heroic remedies 

 were tried in the hope of curing the injury (he was tired, for 

 instance), they did little good. Deprived of all power of grip, 

 he took to ridino- side saddle fashion.* As time went on, he 



* See photograph of Matching Green, i88g. 



