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LEAVES FROM A HUNTING DIARY 



Captain A. T. Digby Neave is here depicted, came into his 

 possession as a four-year old, and for seven seasons carried him 

 in Essex, rarely if ever making a mistake. Got in Kilkenny by 

 " Knave of Hearts," he became, during- nine years of Captain 

 Neave's soldiering, quite used to crossing the Irish Channel, as 

 he made the journey at least seven times. That he was the 

 best mannered horse and second best hunter Captain Neave 

 ever had, will be readilv believed. 



Captain A. T. Digby Neave on " Leinster " 



Eheu, fuoaccs labuntur anni ! Such, at least, must be the 

 reflections of many to whom the close of the season 1893-94, 

 with its hopes and disappointments, its trials and triumphs, has 

 come only too quickly. No season probably in the memory of 

 living man witnessed more changes, experienced more vicissi- 

 tudes. Robbed at its very commencement of some of its 

 brightest, aye, of its best and most respected votaries, ushered 



