MR. CHARLES BOOTH ELMS ALL WRIGHT 367 



Gulliver, Gallopin, Ferryman and Chaser. The 

 remainder of the pack and the horses had been 

 shut up at a farm near. We got the four dogs 

 well rubbed and handled, and reached home 

 as bells were ringing for the Christmas service, 

 covered with mud. However, I was able to 

 change and get to church before the service 

 commenced. 



"Another Christmas Eve experience took 

 place the first season I was with the Milton 

 Hounds. Hounds got away from us over the 

 fens, near Ramsey, with a screaming scent, 

 and although we joined them once, they beat 

 us again, on account of the fen drains. It was 

 very still and freezing hard, and we could only 

 work to the sound down the green drifts. 

 When it was quite dark I was lucky enough to 

 hear them kill their fox on the banks of the 

 Forty Foot Drain and afterwards to get them 

 together. I got them home, no hound missing, 

 at about 10.15, being absolutely alone. Before 

 we killed I had not seen a hound for forty 

 minutes. Of course it was too late to count." 



Mr. Wright says that all the years he has 

 kept hounds he has only missed four days with 

 them through ill-health or accident ; those four 

 days being when he was laid up with diphtheria. 



On Saturday, the 19th April, 1902, a Point- 

 to-Point meeting between members of the 



