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jaunting car. The ladies wore green ; the gentlemen 

 had green hatbands with flowing ends. It was all 

 picturesquely Irish, except the brogue, which was 

 marred by a French accent. 



The boundaries of our success can only be mea- 

 sured by what we have done. We have won a Na- 

 tional Polo Association Championship, which awak- 

 ened our Club pride. 



We have maintained the manly sport of hunting 

 for fourteen years. We were forced to run drags 

 because a large part of our country is covered with 

 swamps. To-day the conditions of the open coun- 

 try are much changed by the use of the modern 

 curse, — wire. A tangled web is being woven which 

 may call for a further solving of the problem of 

 drags. Drags have been developed to such a point 

 that rarely a really bad run is ever had, and they cer- 

 tainly afford more fun to the hard riding " follower " 

 than the pottering of early days. Some students of 

 the "drags" claim they will yet be able to give them 

 all the features of wild fox-hunting. We hope their 

 efforts may prove successful. A past member of our 

 Club, for many years Master of a hunt near New 

 York, has tried every known artificial scent with vary- 

 ing success. With Darwinian research he has evolved 

 a science, and has proved a natural selection of scents 

 adapted to the different atmospheric conditions. 



The Judge, the village legal dignitary, once said 



