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from Punch bears on this : a sporting Cantab., writing to The Field 

 about the T.F.B., said, " The above pack, under the able Mastership 

 of Mr. E. Hunt, have shown excellent sport this season, but owing to 

 lectures they are unable to meet before 1 p.m., and consequently lose 

 the best part of the day." Owing to lectures ! Isn't this melancholy ! 

 The Master of Trinity really ought to have consulted the Master of 

 the Beagles before arranging the curriculum of studies for the term. 

 Hunt was notably a bad dresser — he didn't care what he wore. 

 I well remember, one day in The Pitt, some one told him he must 

 really get a new suit of clothes, and Baily said, " I will sell you these, 

 ' Mother,' " the " these " being a very well-worn suit of black, the 



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owner being in mourning, " How much do you want for them, 

 ' Baal ? ' " said Hunt. " 30 bob " was the reply. " They are mine, 

 send them round to my rooms," said Hunt, and old "30 bob," as the 

 suit was called, I think, lasted out my time. 



He had a perfect mania for wearing beagling shoes — he would 

 wear nothing else, always made by Gane of Eton. 



The Captain of his Company in the Militia said he fairly flabber- 

 gasted them by one day appearing in them on parade. The shoes, I 

 may say, were generally the worse for wear, and one of the privates 

 in his Company, a bootmaker, as all the men were, was overheard to 

 say, "I never seed such a thing, an orficer in shoes and a-walking 

 on his blooming welts." But, teiwpora viutantur, etc., who would 

 now recognise in the smart, grey-headed Member for Ludlow Division 

 of Salop, so well known in the House, the " Mother " Hunt, as seen in 



