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THE TEINITY FOOT BEAGLES 



the Barbarians after all ! And further I know a case in which the 

 advantage has been deliberately made the most of. 



Once upon a time there was a young man whose father sent him up 

 to Cambridge. He was not to spend too much time in fox-hunting, but 

 diligently to learn hound- work with the beagles, of which by diligence 



Early Stages in the Education of an M.F.H. 



A T.F.B. Member goes a proper cropper with the " Fitz-Billy. 



By "Al" in T.F.B. C. Book. 



he rose to the mastership, and handled his hounds regularly four days 

 a week, getting up at six in the morning so as to ride and yet put 

 in some work for an examination. On the other two days he went 

 fox-hunting. After a four years' course at Cambridge he was to go 

 into a Cavalry Eegiment. " And then," he said, " father thinks I will 

 do to come home and take the hounds." A fine career for a young 

 Barbarian! These last words are not "wrote sarcastic": I mean 

 what I say. The man who can manage all the multifarious businesses 



