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Uffington, and his son ; Mr. Sidney Reade, of 

 Baulking, who Hkes to be there ; Mr. Ernest 

 Lidiard, of Faringdon, and his two sons ; Mr. 

 B. Pullen, of Faringdon, ever ready to school 

 an awkward one ; Mr. Harry Cook ; Mr. John 

 White, from Uffington ; Mr. Hickman, from 

 Bishopstone ; Messrs. Maidment, of Shelling- 

 ford ; Messrs. Frogley, from Challow ; Mr. 

 Whitfield; Mr. Hanks; Mr. F. Fletcher, of 

 Carswell, and many other good men. 



With the end of 1904 we finish our " labour 

 of love," the record of nearly 150 years of good 

 sport. May the years to come be as prosperous 

 and as joyous for the country and for the Hunt 

 as the years it has been our privilege to 

 chronicle. 



Post Scriptum. 



While these pages were passing through the 

 press the Hunt sustained a sad loss by the 

 death, almost in the huntino^ field, of Colonel 

 Charles Edwards. On Monday, December 

 the 5th, the hounds met at Challow Station. 

 They found in Sparsholt Copse and ran to 

 Kingston Lisle. Colonel Edwards was riding 

 a young horse he was trying with a view to 

 purchase ; when near Kingston Lisle he felt a 

 severe pain in the chest. He dismounted and 



