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to which I drove out tandem with a man who was not a regular 

 beagler. I remember that as it was a very pleasant day ; I paired off 

 with " somebody staying in the house," and we saw most of the run 

 from a sheltered corner in a half-cut haystack. The pleasure of the 

 day was, however, spoiled by the man I took with me, who swanked 

 abominably about the tandem "we" had driven out. He never 

 touched the reins himself, and if he had would not have come 

 out of it much better had he taken charge of a submarine. The 

 tandem, by the way, was Porcheron's " Buffalo Girl " and " Cigar." 

 The Committee folk went in a four-in-hand driven by H. Pike 

 Pease, and Mr. King, our host, regretted that I had not put up 

 at his stables so that we could have had a driving competition to 

 see which of us could go round his circular drive without getting 

 a wheel on the central grass plot. But this isn't a beagle run, 

 and I fear lest it may be nearly as boring. Eead an account of 

 any fictitious run, like those in Surtees with imaginary names, 

 and they are just as good as real runs through a real country, to 

 those who don't know the country. They are a capital cure for 

 insomnia. For that reason I have kept the accounts of runs down 

 to very modest proportions. Still the Carr-Ellison runs are worth 

 skimming for " incident." Here is the cream : — 



Oct. 17. Fen Ditton. — " Oh for some rain." 



Oct. 19. Waterbeach Fen.—" Oh for some rain." 



Oct. 22. BoTTiSHAM Lode. — " I will not go out again, I think, till 



we have rain." 



Oct. 24. Mr. Lilley's Farm, Coton. — "Did not go out on 



account of hardness of the ground, as we can have no sport, and it is 



only knocking up the hounds." 



Oct. 26. Hauxton Mill. — " Could not really stop hunting any 



longer, although we have had no rain as yet. 



I am writing this some time afterwards ; I rather forget the exact 

 details, but I well remember what a rotten day we had." 



These entries strung together are like the way other phases of life 



