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in the history of the University." Harry couldn't see it, and wasn't 

 for drawing off the hounds. " Do let me kill my hare." " If it is the 

 hare you want, I'll buy you another and send it in this very after- 

 noon." But the Master got more and more angry, and managed to 

 turn us out, beagles and all ; some of us in real fear that our Uni- 

 versity career was over. But the Master, I suppose, cooled down, 

 and nothing more was heard of it. What became of the hare we 

 never knew. 



Eiding days were a huge joy, and then we did turn the hounds 

 in rare style. We had a great day at Foulmire, another beyond Six 

 Mill Bottom, and another at Willingham Fen, a bitter cold day, with 

 sleet, I remember well, because the horse I rode got into a deep fen 

 dyke, and there I had to wait for more than an hour till the farm 

 men brought ropes and the horse was hauled out — a bitter cold job. 



Harry Howard went down in the spring of '73. The pack was 

 his own, and he took the whole of them down to Greystoke and 

 showed great sport with them there, until 1876 when he became 

 Master of the Cumberland foxhounds. 



George Longman was then appointed Master; but we had no 

 hounds, so we had to find a pack. A small pack of twelve couple or 

 so were for sale near Maidenhead, belonging to Mr. Eicardo. George 

 Longman and I made a journey to see them, saw them hunt and 

 bought them. How the finance was arranged I cannot remember. 

 They were bonny hounds, all black, white, and tan, and three or four 

 of them broken haired. I took some of them home and he took the 

 rest to Farnboro' Hill, his father's house. 



When autumn came we had them all together at Farnboro', and 

 had ten days of hunting on the Hampshire Commons. 



Then we had to get them to Cambridge. We hired a van to 

 take them from Waterloo to King's Cross. Somehow there wasn't 

 room for all, and I well remember having five couple of them, along 

 with George and myself, inside a four-wheeler, and our luggage on 

 the top. 



The pack did very well, but I didn't see much sport, as I sprained 

 my leg early in the season and, except for a riding day or two, saw 

 nothing of them. 



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