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INCIDENTS AND OBSERVATIONS 



I. Field Discipline 



In the season 1888-9 there were some capital runners used to 

 come out regularly with us, men who loved the sport. I 

 particularly remember E. Vaizey, C. D. Miller, Phillips, and many 

 others. There was one bad habit members of the T.F.B. had in my 

 time, and which I did my best with some success to get them out of, 

 and that was, when hounds were drawing for a hare they (i.e. the 

 field) would very frequently walk along in groups of four, five, or six, 

 talking or laughing and paying no attention to what was going on. 

 I stopped the hounds drawing one day, and told them as soon as they 

 had finished their conversation I would be much obliged if they 

 would spread out and help me to find a hare, otherwise I should take 

 hounds home. This had the desired effect. 



II. A Run 



(Per mare et terrain) 



I remember one day that same season when I was Master 

 (1888-89) getting a thorough ducking in the Cam ; fortunately there 

 were no after ill-effects. We were hunting somewhere down in the 

 Fen country, I forget where, and our hare, though not very hard 

 pressed, swam the river. It was a very cold day, and I happened to 

 have a good many of the new hounds I had bought from Cheshire 

 out, and also some puppies. They would not go into the water, and 

 as there was no bridge within nearly half a mile, I had to face the 

 river. I am no swimmer, but fortunately A. M. Allgood (my first 

 Whip) and his brother, W. L. Allgood (who was also at The Hall), 

 were with me, so I said, " You chaps will have to help me across." 

 They were capital swimmers, and one swam on each side of me 

 holding me up by one arm. We would have got on capitally if it had 

 not been for the young hounds, who came to my voice and persisted 

 in swimming right over me and knocking me under. I was glad to 

 touch bottom at the far side. We ran a bit of a left-handed circle, 

 when our hare recrossed the river, this time fortunately nearer to a 



