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and we kept our huntiug-crops at work. We met numerous farm 

 carts, and then there were shouts from the two drivers of " Pull your 

 rein, Major," or " Pull that rein of yours, Johnnie," as the case might be. 

 "We eventually reached Cambridge all right, having done the distance 

 under forty minutes, but it was rather a weird drive, as the horses 

 were going at about an angle of forty-five to the waggonette. Thank 

 goodness the harness held ; if it had not we should have had a nasty 

 smash. The other fellows in the waggonette afterwards told us that 

 the language on the box-seat was awful. 



IV. KiDiNG Days 



At the end of each beagling term it was generally understood 

 that there w^ould be a riding meet, which was usually held in a grass 

 country if one could get it. Long Stanton, or Five Bells, Huntingdon 

 Eoad, were, I remember, two favourite riding meets. No one was 

 supposed to come out except by invitation of the Master. These 

 meets were quite good fun, but, I think, were very bad for the 

 hounds. Beagles hate being pressed and driven beyond their proper 

 pace, and are not accustomed to hearing horses galloping behind 

 them. It tends to make them flashy and wild. I hope the riding 

 meets are a thing of the past. 



[Kiding days have long been given up. — F. C. K.] 



V. Finance 



The subscription for members, in my time, was one guinea per 

 term, and after one had spotted a strange face out more than twice 

 or so one used to ask him or get him asked to become a member. 

 Every member received weekly a card of the meets. I know I 

 increased the membership and had about sixty-five paying members 

 per term. The Whips paid no extra subscription, and I got no 

 guarantee or anything of that sort. If I remember right it cost me 

 about £35 for my year of Mastership. I do not remember whether 

 " Fresher " Pease handed me over the hounds for nothing when he 

 gave them up, and whether I did the same to A. Hall, my successor,^ 



^ K. Walker has entered in the list of Masters that Lord ]\Iilton (now Earl Fitz- 

 william, 1892) was the last Master to buy the hounds from his predecessor. 



