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this because it has been my misfortune on the very day I am 

 writing this to see for the first (and I hope the last) time a hound 

 run over by a train. The accident was unavoidable. All the 

 whips were 300 yards behind and ihe train came out of a mist. 

 Poor Ranter was cut in two, and it was a miracle that the whole 

 pack was not destroyed. From time to time these accidents 

 have occurred, especially often at this place (on the bridge at 

 Remenham), and future Masters will do well when hunting this 

 part of the country to have several fellows always on the line, 

 because hares invariably cross it. 



Mr. A. Knowles, first whip in Easter Half 1915, has supplied 

 me with the following information : 



*' As far as I can remember the Prince of Wales came out 

 with us twice during the Michaelmas Half of 1914. Once a meet 

 at the Sanatorium and once at the Queen's Head, Bray. If there 

 is no note of it in the Beagle Book Champion will remember the 

 details. In the Easter Half of either 1914 or 1915, from a meet 

 at Datchet, we got mixed up with the Windsor Drag. The hare 

 crossed the line of the drag. Some of the drag hounds continued 

 with the beagles, and I think that an odd couple or so of the 

 beagles joined the drag hunt. Anyhow I remember shutting up 

 about three couple of the drag hounds in Datchet on the way 

 back to kennels in the evening, and sending a message for them 

 to be fetched. 



" In 1912 there was a very good hunt, which ended with the 

 hare swimming out and drowning in a reservoir at Staines. 

 Another time I remember having a good hunt somewhere in the 

 neighbourhood of Ditton. We lost the hare in a garden, and 

 found her eventually in a basement cellar. I think that was in 

 1914 Easter Half, but I am not certain. I hunted hounds one 

 day Easter 1915, meeting at the 'Prince of Wales' on the 

 Slough Road. AVe found immediately, circled round by Butts 

 back to the ' Prince of Wales ' field, then the hare ran the 

 Slough Road to the ' Burning Bush,' down Common Lane to the 

 Drill Hall, and was picked up * stone cold ' by some Coldstream 

 Guardsmen who were having a lesson in map reading by the 

 bridge over Jordan. Of course the hare was lost, as far as we were 

 concerned, because I was not informed of her fate until too late. 



'' In 1913 Michaelmas Half, from a meet at the Sanatorium, 

 the hare ran up the Racket Court field (next to Walpole House) 

 from South Meadow and was killed in the garden of Booker's 

 House opposite the old Fives Courts." 



To all who admire and follow the career of the Prince of 

 Wales it will be of interest to. know what is written of him in 



