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7. Add anything else you can I got some good hounds from 



think of. Mr. Fellowes of Shotesham. 



Having narrated the more weighty matters we can now find 

 space for one or two more "Hunt" and " Snipey " stories, all 

 contributed Ijy Mr. B urges. 



Two more " Hunt " stories : — 



I 



On another occasion we were sitting round a fire, among us being 

 a first term freshman who had a long nose and a very freckled face. 

 Hunt was staring at him in an abstracted manner, when the freshman 

 said, " I wonder what you are thinking about me, Mr. Hunt ? " 

 Hunt promptly replied, " I was thinking how singularly like a 

 speckled-bellied thrush you were." It is needless to add this nick- 

 name w^as speedily attached to the freshman, and for good. 



II 

 Many years ago, at his own station at Baschurch, Hunt and 

 his wife were going Ijy train, when there appeared a young 

 gentleman full of importance, who, from his features, dress, and 

 ornaments, was of Jewish extraction, wearing a top hat and carrying 

 a gigantic dressing-bag. Hunt was very amused at his appearance 

 and I suppose showed it, as he came up to Hunt in a furious rage 

 and abused him in no measured terms, and ended up by saying, " You 

 are no gentleman," and asked for his name. Hunt listened to his 

 abuse with an amused smile, and when he had finislied said, " My 

 curious little long-hatted friend, we don't put up a little, blue-faced, 

 crooked-nosed, rotten little turnip like you to judge gentlemen in 

 these parts." The little man went to the stationmaster to find out 

 his name, and was told that he was the squire of the parish, and if he 

 hadn't been so small he would probably have been fired into the 

 road by Hunt. The people at the station were intensely amused. 



" Snipe Y " Story No. 2 

 Two undergraduates, one C. Wright the cricketer, went out with 

 Snipey to ferret rabbits at a farm. The farmer and Snipey did the 



