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THE TRINITY FOOT BEAGLES 



Curiously enough, Carr-Ellison gives his version of the fox-hunt, 

 which suppHes some important details and also some useful criticism. 

 Such incidents have occurred more than once. " Mother " Hunt, for 

 example, ran a fox in the vacation in his own country. Sometimes 

 it is of malice prepense and aforethought, but at others involuntary. 

 In Holland Hibbert's season also (meet at Trinity Backs) we 

 hunted a hare out towards Barton and checked in 

 a turnip-field. I, who, potter and skirt, viewed 

 her very beat in some grass, and hoisted my cap 

 on my stick for a view, when a fox got out of 

 the roots. Hibbert was lifting his hounds to me, 

 but they crossed " Mr. Eeynolds' " line and were 

 off. No one could get round them, and they ran 

 first to Granchester, and then a left-handed riner 

 towards Madingley, where they were stopped some- 

 where near the old Windmill, I believe. Here is 

 Carr-Ellison's account of the Pease fox-hunt : — 



" I remember one day, when Arthur Pease was 

 Master, we hunted a fox. He had got word of an 

 ,Frrr>r.,*^/. outlying fox in a portion of the country that 

 ZS _. , ' the foxhounds never came to hunt, tliat had 

 -^^ been doing considerable damage. I don't 



remember where it was exactly, but think 

 it was somewhere in the Oottenham country. We were all on 

 foot and spread out well, about three fields wide. I was about a 

 field away from hounds, and was walking over a stubble when I saw 

 something lying. I saw it wasn't a hare and went closer to look 

 what it was. I got quite close to within 3 yards, and then up 

 jumped an old fat fox. Hounds were got on the hue and we had a 

 good run of about 9 miles in a horseshoe direction, and ran up to 

 him eventually in a hedgerow quite stiff and done. The beagles 

 would not tackle him, so he was despatched with a hunting-crop. 

 The beagles would not break him up. There were several yokels up 

 at the finish, and that was the reason the fox had to be killed, 

 because if we had left him they would only have killed him. It was 



