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objected to us hunting over his laud, and we stopped the hounds, 

 but soou found another hare, which ran for an hour and then took to 

 the railway, and hounds were whipped off. On ¥eh. 20 I see we 

 killed the first hare very soon, and again the second hare ran the 

 railway line, and hounds were stopped on a train approach in o- ; we 

 met on the Fulbourne Eoad that day. We seem to have had a 

 blank day on Feb. 23 at Swavesey. 



On March 3 we met at Waterbeach, 9 couple of liounds inside an 

 old coach, and 14 people outside. We do not seem to have had 

 much sport, but several of us found the fen dykes both wide and 

 deep. 



On March 11, met at Comberton. Unfortunately the drao-- 

 hounds crossed us, and the beagles got on the drag and ran it heel- 

 ways. Currey, being mounted on his cob, was able after some time 

 to stop them. 



March 13, met at Fulbourne Station and ran for 2 hours and 

 10 minutes, crossing the old disused railway cutting, and lost our 

 hare. This is one of the few railways that was constructed and then 

 disused ; the sleepers and rails, I understood, were taken up, and sent 

 out to the Crimea for use of the allied forces during the war. We 

 had, I notice, 30 people out that day running with the beagles ; a cap 

 was taken, I believe one shilling a head, unless one was a subscriber 

 of £1. About this time I remember Charles Dickens came to 

 Cambridge and gave a reading from one of his novels. His son, 

 H. F. Dickens, now a K.C., was then an undergraduate at Trinity 

 Hall. 



I see on May 12, 1869, I went to the opening service of the 7iew 

 clia'pel, St. John's College. 



I met the beagles on Oct. 22, at Barton Tollbar; ran all about 

 there, over Coton Hill, for 2 hours and 15 minutes, but did not 

 kill. 



On Oct. 25, 1869, met the beagles at the second milestone, Ely 

 Eoad ; drew a long time without finding, then found a fox, which we 

 hunted some time. He went to ground several times in drains, but 

 the beagles could get through too, and bolted him more than once. 

 We nearly caught him at last, but stopped, the hound being in the 



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