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beating, and — I wonder if they will run 

 to-morrow." 



I come next to Harry Bolton. How shall 

 I sing his praise in a manner worthy of him ? 

 It is not enough to say that he was a good 

 sportsman — we held him as a model. He was 

 known by all throughout this and several 

 other hunting countries, and to know him was 

 to love him. Here's my cap off to you, Harry ! 



Thinking of Harry Bolton, I cannot help 

 going back to a wonderful run the Oakley 

 Hounds once had from Shelton Gorse. There 

 was a great noise about it, and some lines 

 were written in verse by a gentleman who 

 called himself '' Quis." 



He wrote of the glories of the Oakley 

 Hounds, and he mentioned people from 

 Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Cambridge- 

 shire and Northamptonshire, and alluded to 

 the others as strangers. He made out that 

 our '' Lincoln Green " men were nowhere in 

 the hunt, and among other hard-riding men, 

 Harry Bolton certainly did not receive justice. 

 This so upset my father that he wrote a reply 



