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pleases. From this date l)egiiis the tradition of Whips paying a 

 higher rate of subscription than the ordinary private beagler. 

 Entries record that it was some weeks before members all turned out 

 in correct mess uniform, the last offender being Mr. Doyne, who 

 broke Kule 8 by not wearing a white waistcoat. 



The only events in club history to be recorded are that G. 

 Lawson tells us that in his day lime-juice was introduced at the 

 Club dinners, and there is an entry in book opposite a dinner held 

 in Lent Term 1907, which states — 



" Among twelve gentlemen three-quarters of a bottle of cham- 

 pao-ne were drunk. ye gods ! what would our grandfathers say?" 

 In spite, perhaps l)ecause^ of, such preternatural sobriety, members 

 accuse one another of terminological inexactitude. It is recorded, 

 for example, that on that very day "our hare, when dead beat, goes 

 into a ruined cottage and runs out between the Master's legs, much 

 to his disappointment " ; the truth of the tale being made the more 

 vivid by a circumstantial diagram. Artistically, it is not good 

 enough to call a drawing. But there follows, with the Master's 

 initials — 



" This is an alisolute lie. I was nowhere near the door ; / should 

 have had the sense to shut it if I had, I hope ; some other l)lighter 

 let her out, but she was finally killed. — M. E. 15." 



This introduces us to the T.F.B. pictorial records. The first 

 drawing is a sketch of FroHc, " late T.F.B.," and the only recorded 

 lady guest. Though what she was doing, and where passing her old 

 age, is not recorded. As drawn, she is much too large for her head ; 

 her girth also is ample, and her expression one of pla'.id repletion, 

 which is how a guest should look after dinner. This was at a last 

 dinner of the season, on March 15, 1893. 



The next item of interest is the appearance as a guest of C. Fascoe 

 Hawkes on November 15, 1895, and beside the signature a neat 

 little drawing of a Whip turning hounds. Later in the term he was 

 asked again, and draws another and more flamboyant Whip, also 

 turning a hound, this time with greater spirit, for his attitude is one 

 of almost Bacchanalian fury, and the tail-end of a hound ventre a 



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