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certain hard-riding gentleman. We had much better fun on the day in 

 question with Mr. Barclay's Harriers. In the full flush of good sport you 

 would hardly have written down Monday, the 2ist, as a good day, but it 

 was certainly not devoid of interest, and having to be worked out in half 

 a gale of wind, which blew with searching keenness from the N.E., 

 was certainly as good as one had a right to expect. Quite an average 

 attendance at the rendezvous, Passingford Bridge, from which we obtained 

 a capital view of the rivcv Roden in full flood stretching!; southward for miles 

 in an endless chain of small lakes, the result of the heavy downpour of 

 Saturday night, forming a barrier which no fox was likely to attempt to 

 cross. 



Captain C. D. Bruce 



Captain C. D. Bruce, of the Duke of Wellinoton's Regi- 

 ment, is what he looks in this portrait of him taken at Gilston, 

 Park by Mr. Arthur Bowlby. A keen all-round sportsman, 

 polo, shooting, golf, cricket, hockey on the ice, he can turn his 

 hand to any of them. Between the flags and across country he 

 soon established a reputation which he maintained during his 

 four or five years' residence in the Essex country, where he had 



