REMINISCENCES OF BERT DRAGE 



especially on Long Island. I had the riding of all 

 Mr. Whitney's horses which he had bought of me. 

 I remember once being out with Meadow Brook 

 drag hounds. The fences were all made of strong 

 high timber. My horse had carried me brilliantly, 

 but at this fence he took off a bit too soon, turned 

 over, and gave me a bad fall. When I regained 

 consciousness I was in a bed in a hotel in New York. 



I enjoyed other hunts in America where they 

 had what they call snake fences .In Long Island I 

 found these snake fences about 4ft. 6 inches 

 made of timber posts and covered fencing erect- 

 ed at right angles so that in taking off to jump, 

 your horse must go either to left or right — not very 

 nice on hard going ! People over there 

 were most kind to me. I stayed a good deal with 

 Mr. Strawbridge. I returned to England with a 

 lot of orders for horses. 



Another good gallop I had from Brampton's 

 Fox covert. It was in the cub hunting time. I 

 was going to cross to America that day, but I felt I 

 should like to go out for an hour or two. They 

 found at once, and ran hard and straight to Crank 

 and killed him. I galloped straight home and 

 changed. My things were packed, and so I was 

 able to catch the train at Rugby for Liverpool. 



Another good hunt I must record from Sanders 

 covert was right at the end of the season, and very 

 late in the afternoon. They found at once, but 

 came away towards Brampton, so I felt that was 



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