i8 THE CAMBRIDGE DRAG AND 



very hard days for horses. It meant leaving 

 before seven in the morning, boxing to 

 Huntingdon, and after a good breakfast 

 at the " George," hacking any distance from 

 six to twelve miles to cover and the same 

 way home again. One such day is fixed in 

 my mind, for it was the one on which I first 

 donned a pink coat, and I have found the 

 following account in a letter I wrote : 

 "Yesterday nine of us went by the 7.0 

 train to Huntingdon, where we had break- 

 fast. We then hacked on eleven miles to 

 the meet. We had a wonderful fast hunting- 

 run, hounds going all the time, from five 

 minutes to one till ten minutes past three. 

 Bertie Philips' and Devas' (Mr. E. Devas) 

 horses were ridden to a standstill half an 

 hour before we finished, and all our horses 



