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terre is most wisely making a hurried exit from the page. At the 

 first dinner of the Lent Term he again turns up and contributes a 

 sketch of Mr. Cecil Lupton as a " flying squadron " on a fairly bony 

 old crock, calling upon a hound, who seems to be improperly mixed 

 up with the crock's legs, to ware riot. A fresh hare is making a 

 rapid departure. 



The moral of the foregoing seems to be that if you like being 

 asked out to dinner you should draw funny pictures in your hosts' 

 Minute Book ; but do not be too prodigal : the artist's rule should 

 be, one dinner, one sketch. Mr. Hawkes's drawing should be well 

 known to such as read the Granta, as he drew various figures which 

 constantly head recurring news, such as Lawn Tennis, Piowing Notes, 

 etc. Several of his works are published in this book other than 

 those contained in the Club records. He was subsequently elected 

 a member of Committee, and therefore of the Club. 



The next contributor to the collection is Mr. H. S. Gladstone, 

 whose work is not of such technical excellence as Mr. Hawkes's ; but 

 his drawings are full of spirit and movement, and he displays an 

 especial knowledge of the fashions of the period, as may be seen 

 from a study of a wood nymph and from the millinery of the lady 

 beaglers who are listening to what Mr. Kenneth Walker had to 

 say to the empty hound van at Little Shelford. There is also a 

 rough but life-like sketch of Mr. Gladstone out partridge-driving 

 when he should have been beagling. Being young and an under- 

 graduate, he has but one gun and no retriever, yet he is clearly 

 doing great execution, though one of his birds is an obviously active 

 and vigorous runner. 



At this point the Club enters a note of disgust with one of its 

 members for wanting "amalgamation," though the sentiment is 

 afterwards cancelled. This is the only documentary evidence of a 

 movement set on foot at the time for incorporating the T.F.B. with 

 the Amalgamated Athletic CIuIjs at Trinity, which, by the way, is 

 the position occupied by the Christ Church Beagles at Oxford. Mr. 

 H. S. Gladstone told me of this in course of conversation, and was 

 under the impression that Mr. Eouse Ball, one of the trustees, was 

 a supporter of the proposal. Mr. Eouse Ball, however, himself told 



