i8 THE CAMBRIDGE DRAG AND 



very hard days for horses. It meant leaving 

 before seven in the morning, boxing to 

 Huntingdon, and after a good breakfast 

 at the " George," hacking any distance from 

 six to twelve miles to cover — and the same 

 way home again. One such day is fixed in 

 my mind, for it was the one on which I first 

 donned a pink coat, and I have found the 

 following account in a letter I wrote : 

 " Yesterday nine of us went by the 7.0 

 train to Huntingdon, where we had break- 

 fast. We then hacked on eleven miles to 

 the meet. We had a wonderful fast hunting- 

 run, hounds going all the time, from five 

 minutes to one till ten minutes past three. 

 Bertie Philips' and Devas' (Mr. E. Devas) 

 horses were ridden to a standstill half an 

 hour before we finished, and all our horses 



