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THE TEINITY FOOT BEAGLES 



the details are not worth printing. And then Nimrod slept with his 

 fathers, and Agag his son reigned in his stead, and so on ad infinitum 

 si non ad nauseam I 



With T.F.B. it is none otherwise. They drive out and beagle and 

 usually have a tolerably good day, occasionally a " red letter," and 

 sometimes a " rotten joyless " one. Occasionally a riding day is (or 

 rather was) arranged for, and every season there are one or two 

 swimming days, usually without pre-arrangement. Beagling over, one 

 has tea, and drives home to bath, dress, and dine, and now and again 

 the Proctor comes in to dessert, till ]\Iay term comes round and a 

 new Master takes office, when more green coats are ordered at the 



In the Good Old Times. 



tailor's, and all is to do over again ; the only difference being that 

 the life of an undergraduate is shorter than that of a Palestinian 

 kin», and that though there were bad kings, sometimes very bad ones, 

 in those parts, there have been no bad Masters of T.F.B., though one 

 must suppose, as the rustic observed of divers brews of beer, that 

 some were better than others. 



To briefly review the matter. Before Currey's time there were 

 intermittent packs of hounds followed on foot and hunting something 

 animate or inanimate, the last of these being the " Foot Drag." Here 

 followed the Interregnum. From Currey's time onwards, however, 

 there has always been a subscription pack of beagles hunting hares, 

 known first as the Foot Beagles and then as Trinity Foot Beagles. 

 To " Mother " Hunt and P. Burges we owe the Kennels and green 

 coats; to "Jack" Milne, "Bob"; and to "Judy" Carr-Ellison, the 



