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tHe Reading Room, which was responded to by 

 numbers of ladies and gentlemen who gathered 

 in honour of the occasion, Mrs. Hutchinson 

 and her friends offering a hearty greeting to 

 the guests on the steps of the official mansion. 

 Amongst such a crowd it would be difficult to 

 enumerate the component parts, but the follow- 

 ing may be mentioned : Lord Edward Manners- 

 (the Field Master), Lady Victoria Manners ^ 

 Lord Robert Manners, Sir John and Miss 

 Thorold, Mr. F. S. Stanley, Major Longstaffe, 

 Col. Theobald, Mr. V. Hemery, Major Sandys, 

 Mr. E. Lubbock, Mr. Marsland, Col. Willson, 

 Mr. and Mrs. Montague Thorold, Major James 

 Hutchinson, Mr. Walter Willson, Mr. Peacock, 

 Col., Mrs. and Miss Parker, Mr. Couturie, 

 Major Downing, Mr. H. Smith, the Misses 

 Heathcote, Mr. C. Bradley, Mr. W. Pinder, 

 and Messrs. Joseph Wilders, J. Hinde, 

 Jos. Hutchinson, J. Brewster, J. Tomlinson, 

 Thomas Hutchinson, Mr. and Mrs. Earl, 

 R. Burrows, R. Wyles, I. Hoyes, Rudkin, 

 Bellamy, Pick, J. A. Rudkin, Stockdale, 

 Grummitt, Dowse, Rastal, and a host of others. 



The Master selected a capital place to '^ fling 

 off" at Harrowby Gorse, which lies on the 



