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THE TEINITY FOOT BEAGLES 



music ; if you can get good looks too, so much the hetter. To my mind, 



fifteen inches is quite big enough for a plough country, and fourteen 



for a grass country. They can do with less bone in a grass country 



than in a plough country, but wherever you may be hunting try and 



have some good shoulders and neck, straight legs, and round feet, and 



good muscular loins ; other points I don't think matter so much. 



I hope the T.F.B. may flourish and have good sport for very 



many years to come. 



(Signed) J. S. Carr-Ellison. 



VII. Epilogue 

 {From a letter dated December 8, 1911.) 

 I think it is now nearly seven years since I paid my last visit to 

 Cambridge, and it was funny walking about and knowing no one. 

 The only men who recognised me were one or two 

 cab-drivers and touts, who used to help with the 

 /(^ -.f^ Beagle cart, and I was pleased to hear them say as 



I passed, " Why, that's the cove as ran to New- 

 market and back, and he don't look any older." — 

 J. S. C.-E. 



lUmning to Newmarket and back was fashion- 

 able exploit among sporting undergraduates at 

 that time. It was a sort of dim echo of the 

 pedestrian feats performed by the " bucks " in the 

 Regency days. 



Carr-Ellison has left a book among T.F.B. 

 archives which is a careful diary of all the days' 

 hunting during his Mastership. It is a great 

 pleasure to me, who saw many of those runs, to 

 turn them over and see which of them I re- 

 member : yet even to me only a few stand out 

 clearly. The first day I w^as out that season, for 

 example, at Harwiche village, when I was publicly 

 complimented on the condition in which Eansom and Ptanter had 

 come back from their summer walk. And a day at Briukley Hall 



Blood " of the latkk 

 Eighties. 



