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fax, and CrojDpen of Horncastle. Yet I know that 

 some of them are still to the fore in dog matters, 

 and are running their race against " all time." 



Poor Walker, by-the-by, I saw last year. He 

 was unfortunately shot by accident some two or 

 three seasons back by a friend ; he has never, if I 

 may so term it, " come with a rush " again. William 

 Lort, one of our oldest judges, is hard at work here, 

 there, and everywhere, with one or two more of the 

 old circuit. 



What has become of Viscount Curzon, who so 

 well filled the chair at tlie Annual Dinner ? Death 

 has been busy again, for Viscount Curzon is, by the 

 demise of his father, now Earl Howe. The last 

 time I saw his Lordship was at the " Hen and 

 Chickens" at Birmingham, in 1869. Poor Lord 

 Garvagh was on his right hand ; he too has gone 

 " the way of all flesh." 



On that occasion I remember that prince of good 

 fellows, P. L. Hunt, who has been connected with 

 the show from its commencement, singing a song 

 that made our hair curl, and drove one or two 

 white- tied gentlemen from the room. 



The Earl Howe has been chairman of the Com- 

 mittee ever since the show was started, and Mr 

 George Beecli, the secretary, nearly as long; and 

 right well has he done his work, 



