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the spectacle gave me quite a shock. In these last days, when I can 

 again sometimes go out to see the fun, I myself bicycle to the meet, 

 without shame indeed but with a feeling that the old driving days, 

 even if they cost more, were better. To such a pass have things 

 since come that when two brake-loads of modern beaglers came out 

 to a driving meet, and one brake was starting home early, there 

 were searchings of heart as to who should drive ! So that, thanks to 

 the insidious bogwheel, the country is " going to the dogs, sir ! " 



Since then I have seen a Whip in the Drag in full war-paint with 

 mahogany tops and spurs riding a bogwheel home from Hopkins's 

 stables ! But to proceed with our annals. 



There is a note appended to the hst of Masters and Whips for 

 the year 1892 to the effect that the Master of that year. Lord Milton 

 (now Earl FitzwiUiam), was the last to buy the hounds from the 

 preceding Master, which of course means that he gave the pack to 

 his successors in trust for the benefit of the hunt. No details are 

 obtainable, so that it is only possible to put the bare fact on record. 

 Indeed the years from October 1889 to January 1895 were quite 

 uneventful : at least no records or communications of any sort are 

 forthcoming. 



In January 1895, as no Master could be found to take on the 

 hounds, a Beagle Hunt Committee was formed, consisting of the 

 Huntsman, Whips, and three others, as follows : — 



Kenneth Walker, Huntsman. 



R. F. Allgood ^ 



R. R. Crewdson 



A. C. Lupton I ^^'^">^- 



W. H. M. Ellis J 



C. E. Pease, 



A. B. P. Harrison, 



H. G. Carr-Ellison. 



At this period either things again began to happen, or at least of 

 what then happened there are abundant records, chiefly vxemoranda 

 left by Messrs. Kenneth and Nigel Walker, and Mr. Hugh S. 

 Gladstone's very full diary. These deal with the repair of the 



