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THE TRINITY FOOT BEAGLES 



A very sociable feature of those days, as of these, were the inii 

 teas, when beagling was over, as were also the train meets, which in 



J. S. Carr-Ellison with "half a field on each foot." 



those days occurred more often. In those days fields were large, and 

 the G.E.R. used to provide us with a form of open carriage called, I 

 believe, an excursion saloon. Also in those days when we whipped 

 off we used to race back to get the slop-basin to drink out of, and of 

 course whoever got in first seized it. 



In those days to ride a bog- wheel to the meet was the unspeakable 

 crime. I think that it was the invention of the safety and the 

 fashionable craze for bicycling that did much to rub the corners off 

 our etiquette. This began almost immediately after I went down. 



The historical part of this chapter speaks mostly of the doings of 

 Carr-EUison. But in all that he did to put fresh life into T.F.B. he 

 was following on lines laid down by Pease. It is impossible to bring 



