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light, all right on her day, but never one to stand 

 much knocking about. Dutiful, too, came in for 

 praise, a racing-looking bitch in her first season by 

 the Oakley Broker, and George Baker the huntsman 

 told us next day, when we met him in kennel, that 

 this dog had done well as a sire for the Cambridge- 

 shire, getting the right sort for work. 



Another hunt started from Mudloe Wood, and 

 this time we had better going on the grass across 

 Gaynes Park, which carried a useful scent. A lead 

 over the sunk fence was given by the master, fol- 



One to follow. 



lowed by a stranger lady, and Count Tisa. Then 

 after an intricate bit of hunting, necessitating the 

 negotiation of one or two widish places, hounds ran 

 in delightful fashion over the rising grass country 

 into Perry V^^ood, a stronghold which has enabled 

 many a fox to elude his pursuers. On the journey 

 homewards in the dusk, a ride of twelve miles, we 

 pulled up at the Cross- Keys, an old-fashioned 

 hostelry at St. Neot's, where the horses had gruel, 

 and the hunt servants a well-earned ''bite." Very 

 welcome were the lights of the master's house, 

 Gramsden Hall, by Sandy, where we arrived just in 

 time for dinner, and, after strugghng out of water- 

 logged boots and hunting kit, which we had donned 

 twelve hours previously, the creature comforts of a 



