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the pack than there begins an eruption of table- 

 cloths to be spread under the shade of the 

 carriages, upon their cushions, across the knees 

 of their occupants, and in fact in every con- 

 ceivable fashion according to the entertainer's 

 fancy. 



Amongst a field so heterogeneous, and gathered 

 from so wide a sphere, it is not surprising that 

 to many, one of the chief delights of the day is 

 the making acquaintance, bv sight at least, with 

 personalities never otherwise encountered, and 

 habitues of the Hunt often find their time 

 pretty fully occupied in answering such ques- 

 tions as " Oh, do tell me who that curious 

 looking old clergyman is?" or ''I say, my boy, 

 how about the pretty lady yonder in the grey 

 habit ? " With the succeeding years it is the 

 actors of this play who change, and not the 

 scene : each year some well known and res- 

 pected faces are seen no more : famous men in 

 other fields perhaps are seen once or twice and 

 then fate keeps them busily employed else- 

 where : others whom memorv recalls as amongst 

 the front rank have since made name and fame 

 and helped the growth of the Empire. Sir 

 Alfred Milner has been entered to the sport ; 

 Sir Evelyn Wood knows the look of the moor ; 

 H.H. Prince Galitzin is quite at home with the 

 tufters amid the mazes of the Quantock wood- 

 lands and can hold his own when the great 



