22 THE CAMBRIDGE DRAG AND 



M.F.H. that would give a party of under- 

 graduates such a warm reception as Lord 

 Spencer gave us. The survivors of this 

 run were Lord Spencer, Captain B. Beecher, 

 Lord Yarborough, Hon. C. R. Spencer, B. 

 H. Philips, and myself. I have seen few 

 finer runs than this in my life, and old Osman 

 never made a mistake. The last hunter I 

 had at Cambridge was a four-year-old mare, 

 Queen Mab, a charming and precocious 

 young thing, of whom more anon. 



To return to the Drag for a moment. 



The Over Drag and the Downing Arms 

 were considered the severest in my day. 

 The former was a course of some three 

 miles, but a fence for every hundred yards, 

 and a big fence too. I rode this Drag six 

 times, and only once got to the end of it on 



