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me that he was against it, as the Beagles, in spite of their name, are 

 really a University and not a College institution, which is of course 

 the right way to look at the matter. Had the change been effected, 

 the whole character of the Hunt, which depends so largely on its 

 complete independence and comparative informality of constitution, 

 would have been changed. Moreover there is no natural connection 

 between field sports and College es2Jrit de corps, and as Trinity 

 men have told me, their foundation is too big to foster such senti- 

 ments. 



After this there is a blank period when nothing is recorded 

 except when and wliere the dinners were held and who went to 

 them ; and then they found two new artist guests, C. de M. Grant 

 and C. W. Jones. There are also many anonymous drawings, 

 including a sporting artist,^ whose power of presenting horses in 

 motion is admirable, and in a style somewhere between that of 

 Finch Mason and of Mr. Or. D. Armour of Punch fame ; and a series 

 of drawings, signed with the monogram of A, H. Penn, who is the 

 last and best of the T.F.B. artists. His style is natural and yet 

 grotesque, and he has a quite unusual power of putting comical 

 expression into both his faces and figures, he having the most 

 invaluable of all gifts for such work — a droll imagination. This 

 quality comes out with especial force in relation to an accident 

 which happened to Mr. E. G. Buxton when out with the Fitz- 

 william. The nature of the accident appears to have been con- 

 cussion, and, in consequence, he is shown as being trephined, which, 

 as every schoolboy knows, consists in boring a hole in the head (" to 

 let out the fumes," as Godonias said, or, rather, as Charles Kingsley 

 says that he said). However, be that as it may, the 



Genius of Paget about to trepan 

 is as nothing compared to the heroic surgery here displayed. To 

 begin with, there are two operators at work at once, of whom one is 

 sawing the patient's skull, and the other is punching a hole with a 

 heavy hammer and powerful chisel ; this second surgeon is fat and 

 bathed in perspiration. So strenuous is the work that, though the 



^ I propose to name him "Al," which hoth stands for Anonymous Xo. 1 and also 

 as a tribute to the excellence of the work. 



