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They were removed to Free the van-driver's farm, to be hunted the 

 following day at Five Bells. " Mother " Hunt was missed and was 

 found painting the hocks of the animals with aniseed, and so mucli 

 did he put on that one could wind them all the way to the meet. 

 AVe " took " them both, but the hounds at first would not run them 

 nor the aniseed. — Yours very truly, 



(Signed) Edgar A. Milne. 



Bob using a valuable retriever for Inmting rats on a muck-heap — 

 he was still but a boy, remember — is quite of a piece with his shooting 

 of the jackdaw. The other tales are also interesting. What, for 

 example, could be more typical of undergraduate inconsequence 

 than to wire for two deer in the middle of dinner and then to forget 

 all about it ? It is also pleasant to hear more of Mr. Gunton of 

 Mao-dalene, Dean of the " four veries," and at this epoch Senior 

 Proctor. He was still a Fellow of his College in 1891, teste the 

 " University Calendar," but must have given up beagling soon after 

 the Milne era, for neither he nor any other Don beagled in my 

 undergraduate days. 



Travelling one day on seafaring business to Ipswich, for Pin Mill, 

 l;)y what our Shelford porters call the " Pampisford, Linton, Bartlow, 

 'Aver'll, Sudbury, and Colchester train," I chanced at Long Melford 

 to pick up a young Hyde Parker, a latter-day beagler of Magdalene, 

 and to be introduced to his father, the Ptev. Sir W. Hyde Parker, 

 Bart. So naturally as w^e jogged along, two Jesuits in disguise, 

 for we were Ijoth in mufti, our talk fell on T.F.B. and this history, 

 and so led to the discovery that Sir William had whipped in to 

 the present liev. Master of the Cattistock when he had been ]\Iaster 

 of T.F.B., which resulted in a promise of the contribution here 

 following : — 



NOTES re T.F.B.— 1883-85 



By the Pev. Sir W. Hyde Parker, Bart. 



For the season of 1883-84, E. A. Milne, always known as "Jack 

 Milne," became Master, having whii)ped to AVynn (Sir AVatkin 



