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Greens. — Bob used to have as many greens and cabbages as he 

 liked out of Mrs. Ward's, his landlady, garden for which I paid 

 £1 per year. This I thought exorbitant, but being so convenient, I 

 never interfered. — Anox. 



Bob gets the greens still and has them down in his account when 

 he calls to get his wages paid once a week or fortnight. — D. G. H. 



Sundries. — Wood was procured from a public at the corner of 

 Victoria Eoad near the cemetery. The whole cost was £1 per year. 

 The man kept the kennels supplied without orders. — Anon. 



Coal and wood were procured from E., Grocer etc., Histon 

 Eoad, who also supplied brushes, etc. Being a near neighbour, it 

 is as well to keep in with him. — Anon. 



Strato. — The straw I procure from X., Corndealer, Bridge Street. 

 He will send it up, six trusses at a time. The price, of course, varies, 

 but you may take the average retail price at Is. per truss. — Anon. 



I get my straw from J. Free, Plough and Harrow, Madingley 

 Eoad, and so did my predecessor A. F. Pease. He (Free, not Pease ! — 

 F. C. K.) sends up six trusses at a time, and of course any quantity 

 that is wanted. — J. S. C.-E. 



Free has, for some time, driven the Beagle Hound Van, so it 

 is well to patronise him. — Anon, (in another hand). 



General Management of Hounds 



I have a letter from Lord Ernest St. Maur, in answer to one of 

 mine in which I expressed some amusement at beaglers troubling 

 about being back in time for Hall ; Currey being a Don and a 

 member of High Table, of course, made a difference. And a further 

 letter from him, just received, reveals the fact that there were 

 Fellow Commoners on the earth in those days, who of course sat 

 above the Salt, and there were then no Club dining-rooms. Here is 

 the letter ; the italics are mine. — F. C. K. 



Burton Hall, Loughborough, 

 April 9, 1911. 



Dear Mr. Kempson — 



I suppose in the present day the undergraduate goes to the 



