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The wind from the east blew keen and cold ;is we all wished 

 the Master good cheer in his fourteen-mile hack home on a 

 horse, a big bold chesnut, that thrice that da\ alone had jumped 

 into wire and had escaped all injury 



" Long may it prosper, the pastime we cherish, 

 Long may the gallop be heard on the lea ; 

 Long be the day ere our stag-hunting perish. 

 Long may the chase be unfettered and free." 



Mrs. W. H. Sewell on "Jack" 



Mrs. William H. Sewell, like Mrs. Waters, is devoted 

 to hunting- and hockey. She is a first-class tennis player, and 

 has been very successful in winning prizes at the West Essex 

 and vStansted Polo Club Gymkhanas. 



The season that has just passed away will ever be associated with ouc of 

 tlie i^orst fvosts in the memory of man, cutting out, as it most completely did, 

 the best month of the year, when foxes travel and the country carries a 

 scent. In spite, however, of this drawback, and the difficulty experienced 

 upon several occasions in finding foxes, the season has been a distinctly 

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