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'^ Sir," said the old groom, ^' It put's me in 

 mind of gruffling arter meice, more'n anything." 



A nice compliment to hare-hunting ! 



I have already given my opinion of 

 Charles Barnett, than whom no better man 

 ever rode to hounds. It was my great 

 pleasure to once render Mr. Barnett and the 

 Cambridgeshire a service of which, I think, I 

 had some right to feel proud. During his 

 Mastership they were at one time very short 

 of funds, and as I was riding on to covert 

 with him one morning he said to me : — 



'* What a pity it is, George. Meyers 

 (who lived at the Hardwicke Arms, Wim- 

 pole) is going to give up collecting for us, 

 and we are darnation hard up for funds. 

 Who can we get to take on that most 

 necessary work ? " 



I said to him, after thinking it over for 

 a minute, '^ I will." 



" Capital ! " he exclaimed, '' and so you 

 shall." Now to show the difference between 

 those days and these, may I say that in a 

 very short time I collected over £900 from 



