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he was not cordial. The sport was ordinary and just find, run, check, 



run, kill (by the level crossing), and then find, run, check, run, and 



lose her and whip off for tea. During the second run it rained and I 



got wet through. The Olympians of the " Com- 

 mittee Cart " seemed quite kind and human, and 



offered me wraps and to drive me home. But 



there were not enough wraps, so I took train home 



via Ely. I remember feehng then, as I think all 



beaglers feel, that one was getting away from the 



life of the 'Varsity back to that of home. No one 



could, I suppose, wish not to have lived his time 



at the 'Varsity, and yet for a country-bred man 



there are things in 'Varsity life that irk, and to 



get away behind a fast-trotting pony to ploughed 



fields and muddy lanes and farmers was a blessed 



relief Beao-linff was good, but home was better, 



and I beheve that most sporting undergraduates 



feel much more like schoolboys than 'Varsity men 



about going down at the end of Term. 



In those days there were no bicycles, at least 

 only the high ordinaries called by us 

 "bog-wheels," on which no self-respecting person would be 

 seen ; neither w^as there a public Beagle brake — so that we 

 all drove out in our own hired traps behind fast ponies, 

 sharing two or three together. This cost more money but 

 we got much more fun for it. Saunders had the Trump- 

 ington Street yard (now Hopkins's) and Porcheron that in 

 Jesus Lane (now closed). Saunders had the stoutest ponies 

 and I usually dealt with him. He also had an enormous 

 weight-carrier, a roarer, on which H. Pike Pease used to 

 come out riding — he was really a Dragman — and I rode 

 him once or twice with the Cambridgeshire. He was 

 a wonderful horse with a perfect mouth. 



J. B. Seely, now a Colonel and a D.S.O. for services 

 ri^^ ~^^ in South Africa and a member of the Government, was 



Col. j. b. Seely. a very prominent beagler. He is also a good sailor- 



H. Pike Pease ox Bendigo. 



