With the Wanvickshire, 1 1 7 



hundred spectators were assembled to witness tlie fun 

 and to see these dashing boys running over their 

 severe course^ finishing at a brook too large to be 

 jumped, through which they rushed breast-deep in 

 their struggle to reach the goal. For my part I 

 would rather not have waded through that icy stream, 

 but I was told that was the chief fun of the race. 



