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THE ETON COLLEGE HUNT, 



throughout the season. The kennels themselves were rather a 

 ramshackle construction, and not really fit for housing a pack of 

 hounds. But they were an improvement on the old ones, 

 especially as the hounds only spent three months in the year 

 there; and they were considered sufficient by many capable 

 masters right up to the time when the tv>rin Grenfells, those two 

 great Etonians who as every one knows fell in the service of their 



AN AWKWARD MEETING. 



country, took upon themselves the task of erecting new and 

 up-to-date kennels. 



Rowland Hunt left Eton and went to Cambridge, to do for 

 the Trinity beagles what he had already done for the Eton 

 beagles. There is no greater testimonial to his work at Eton 

 than the fact that crowds of Old Etonians flocked to subscribe to 

 the Trinity beagles directly they heard that he had undertaken 

 the mastership. E. K. Douglas, his second whip, reigned in his 

 stead. From 1876 onwards for the next ten years the sport was 

 consistently good. Hunt had brought the Eton beagles to a 

 higher standard of efficiency than they had ever enjoyed before. 



