CHAPTER XI 



VARSITY DAYS REVIVED WITH THE CAMBRIDGE- 

 SHIRE AND MR. DOUGLAS GROSSMAN 



Memories of days at the Cambridge Varsity— The days of youth — Great 

 sportsmen who graduated at Cambridge— King Edward VII. gradu- 

 ated with the Cambridgeshire hounds and Tom Firr — Mr. G. P. Evans' 

 mastership— Mr. G. Smith Bosanquet's mastership — Mr. Douglas 

 Grossman's mastership — The meet at Graf ham Station — The leading 

 lady hounds — Cambridgeshire foxes — Mr. Grossman's hunters — 

 Mrs. Grossman— The field out — A hunt from Grafham to Perry 

 Woods— Some points of a working pack — A finish and long ride 

 home through St. Neot's — The Cambridgeshire dog-hounds on the 

 flags — Dasher, the dog of promise— Two good days' sport, 1908-9. 



" Hunting is the noblest exercise, 

 Makes men laborious, active, wise ; 

 Brings health, and doth the spirits delight, 

 It helps the hearing and the sight ; 

 It teacheth arts that never slip 

 The memory — good horsemanship, 

 Search, sharpness, courage, and defence, 

 And chaseth all ill habits thence." 



Cambridge has many pleasant memories for vege- 

 tating country parsons, schoolmasters, hard-working 

 M.P.'s, missionaries, masters of hounds, county 

 magistrates, and J acks-of- all-trades, the University 

 turning out sportsmen as well as wranglers. It 



seems but yesterday that we watched young L 



graduating in sport over the steeplechase fences at 

 Cottenham, and to the fore in that neck-or-nothing 

 ride with the Varsity drag-hounds. To-day he is 

 one of the most efficient masters of hounds in 



England. Again it was young W we all went 



to hear in the debate at the Union — " For the 

 Abohtion of Proctors." The senate was full as we 



