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vicinity. Through the Myopia Club, racing was 

 revived and hunting was introduced. The club was 

 always active in spreading the glad tidings of outdoor 

 life. 



The name was preserved to posterity through the 

 Myopia Fox-Hounds, formed in 1882, composed 

 of thirty members. The kennels were on the Myo- 

 pia Club grounds in Winchester. The roll-call of 

 the Winchester battalions who are now members of 

 the Myopia Hunt Club would not muster a corpo- 

 ral's guard ; and it is a matter of deep regret that so 

 many have resigned who resurrected hunting with a 

 pack of hounds and who were the first to introduce 

 a subscription pack and hunt club into this neighbor- 

 hood. 



As these recollections of Winchester are largely 

 drawn from memory, the records of the Myopia 

 Club being either lost or destroyed, they have been 

 written under the title of the Apocrypha. 



The glory of Winchester days was the good fel- 

 lowship and brightness of its social club life. Bac- 

 chus will vouch there was fun there. The faith in 

 Bacchus seemed declining until a Bacchante * was 

 sent to us, which has been domiciled in our most 

 beautiful palace, rent free. Is this a Jesuitic move 

 on the part of Bacchus to gain a foothold ? 



* Since the above was written, the Bacchante has been removed to 

 the Metropolitan Museum, New York. 



