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dance at the fine old Elizabethan residence, where 

 three hundred guests assembled. 



The occasion we had a day's hunting at the end 

 of season 1910-11 with this sporting Hertfordshire 

 pack, was unfortunately very wet, and the going 

 water-logged after a night of rain, a climax of 

 mud and misery for the small field who braved 

 the elements. The master, who was riding the 

 Gunner — the big brown-black horse — was hunting 



I\Ir G. Smith-Bosanquet hunting hounds, JNIarch 191 1. 



a mixed pack of fifteen and a half couples, whilst 

 Budd, ready to serve in any capacity, acted as 

 whipper-in, riding a nice-shaped grey horse, Ban- 

 bury, a new purchase from Captain F. Gooch. 

 Tucker, owing to a "rider's strain," was not in 

 the field, his place being taken by a second horse- 

 man, carried by Darkie, a sharp black horse, with 

 a short tail, a good performer which had formerly 

 been the mount for George Whitmore, huntsman to 

 the Atherstone. Another absentee from the staff, 

 on the sick list, was Captain Sworder, who besides 



