Friday, January 24th, 1896. 



Meet at Caesar's Camp. An enormous field, swelled by 

 Crammer's boys, would-be thrusters and hard riders from the 

 " Queens." The line ran through Easthampstead Park, over the 

 rails, up the hill, over the big ditch, then, left-handed, down over 

 the ditch again, near Col. Peel's house, and then over capital 

 ground to Holme Grange. Hounds were never so pressed, the 

 field rode close up to their sterns. 



At the big rails there was a crashing of timber, and 20 yards of 

 post and rails went down as before a cyclone. 



[Hasty demolitions in the field. Staff College course.] 



At the first crossing of the ditch " Kirk " and others covered 

 themselves with mud and glory, and some twenty of the field 

 remained on the wrong side. At the second, the second whip, on 



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