Friday, January 31st, 1896. 



Meet, Gas Works, Wokingham. Owing to the energetic 

 action of our Sec. and the Jacksonianlike mystery preserved by all 

 concerned, the field was a smallish one, and consisted nearly 

 entirely of Staff College men. The line was through Tangley 

 Park over the water, left-handed over the Tangley Brook and then 

 right-handed to Lock's Farm. 



The casualties were not numerous, and, bar one, presented no 

 humourous features. Mr. Earle, however, on Starveacre, who was 

 not in a water-jumping mood, after much difficulty at the small 

 brook, arrived at the second to meet with an absolute refusal. 

 Again and again he gallantly drove his mount at it, and with equal 

 pertinacity Starveacre refused ; at last, coming sideways at it, the 

 horse, unable to swerve quickly enough, reared, and backwards 

 into the brook came horse and rider. For a moment they dis- 

 appeared, and then rose to the surface, Starveacre belly up, Earle 



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