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We had the opportunity to enjoy a sight of the 

 Cambridgeshire hounds in the field and in the kennel 

 at the end of season 1908-9 under most favourable 

 circumstances, the guest of the master Mr. Douglas 

 Grossman. Talking of hounds by sires whose 

 family characteristics are known to us is always 

 full of interest, especially in the case of the Belvoir, 

 where the strong family likeness is so pronounced. 

 Beginning with the day's hunting, which we saw after 

 making an early start from Lincolnshire to catch 

 the first express up to Huntingdon, we happened 

 to choose the wettest day of the year, and the last 

 of the Cambridgeshire season. Boarding the motor 

 at Huntingdon, we travelled nine miles to covert 

 with Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Crossman, the rain 

 penetrating every sort of wrap and covering as we 

 swished along over excellent level roads. The view 

 all the way was good typical hunting country, 

 plenty of grass land with the hedgerows well tim- 

 bered, and in the far distance, on a ridge of high 

 country, there appeared a large extent of forest. 



The meet was at Grafham station, where a nice- 

 sized field had assembled in spite of the discom- 

 forts of heavy-falling rain, numbering several ladies, 

 who always look more cheery under these trying 

 conditions than do the sterner sex. Hounds had 

 arrived after a long trot by road, the only sort of 

 *'dog" one would have thought of turning out of doors 

 on such a morning, much less expect to show sport 

 in a country which every hour of the day became 

 more water-logged. In the absence of the hunts- 

 man, on the sick-list, the two whippers-in were in 

 charge, Frank Tucker and Mike Cullerton, mounted 

 on blood-hunters, for the Cambridgeshire country 

 requires a well-bred, stout horse to gallop on in 

 deep going and jump every sort of fence. The 



