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over seventeen hands. The other three gentlemen above- 

 named were all, at the last moment, prevented from join- 

 hig the chase of Monday. 



The summer of 1894 happens to have been unusually 

 devoid of rain ; and the surface of the Island became con- 

 sequently almost as dry as a dead camp-fire. The summer 

 itself seemed hardly to have passed away, as under the 

 lowering sun we rode to the trysting-place this Monday 

 afternoon, October i, 1894. No further law is per- 

 mitted to late-comers upon Long Island than has already 

 been allowed to the man with the bag. Of these regis- 

 tered minutes they are at liberty to avail themselves for 

 conversational and such like purposes as are supposed to 

 pertain to a meet of hounds. Thus, at four o'clock to a 

 moment Mr. Frank Griswold was to be seen issuing from 

 the Club grounds, some seventeen couple round his heels, 

 and Joe Murphy in attendance, Master and man as well 

 equipped, well-mounted, and business-like as when I saw 

 them two years ago. Since that day Mr. Griswold, amal- 

 gamating his own pack with that of the Club, has suc- 

 ceeded Mr. T. Hitchcock as Master of the Meadowbrook, 

 on the latter resigning and establishing hounds in South 

 Carolina. With the mastership, be it added, comes the 

 privilege of at all times and under all circumstances lead- 

 ing the field in pursuit of hounds. Methinks, were this 

 etiquette to be acknowledged and enforced in Old Eng- 

 land, many a change of mastership would speedily be 

 announced. Looked at from one point of view alone, 

 imagine the feelings of the M.F.H. called upon to 

 live ever in front of the galloping hundreds of the 

 Quorn or Pytchley ! If you want another point of view, 

 you will find it in a glimpse of the Long Island timber ; 

 fancy yourself booked for the post in question for a period 

 (^f years, three times a week whatever the weather and 

 whatever your mode of life and its temptations ; then go 

 home, and there study at leisure " A Question of Courage " 

 as set forth in this month's Lippincolt's Magazine. 



For all exigencies that might arise on the present 

 occasion the Master appeared admirably mounted on a 

 beautiful mare named Sweetheart, said to have been bred 



