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who shortly afterwards was ordered off to Newbridge. Captain J. Hanwell then 
became Master, with Lieutenants Cairnes and Learmonth as Whips, the two latter 
went on leave on the 1st January and were re-placed by Lieutenants Sandars and 
Lamont, who carried on till the end of the season. 
Mills, who became kennel huntsman on the death of poor old Babbage, has 
done remarkably well, and kept his hounds in good condition. 
Driver Guest, who has re-placed Grainger as runner, has also done very well 
indeed, having run well and made but very few mistakes. 
In October we had four bye days ; once after hares round Well Hall, where 
the hounds promptly accounted for two. Mr. Russell, thinking there would be 
none left for another day then asked the master to spare the rest of his stock. 
The landowners and farmers dined at Mess on Saturday the 30tli October, 
Sir Patteson Nickalls and Mr. May returning thanks. 
The opening meet took place at the Mess on Tuesday the 2nd November, when 
we ran the Well Hall line. Owing to the want of rain the ground was very hard, 
so the next few runs were fixed for the Cray Valley and the Marshes. 
On the 18th November Mr. Armstrong kindly asked the Hunt to lunch at 
Horton Kirby, when we had a run over the Farningham line. 
On the 26th November 20 of us went to Westerham by special train, and had 
a real good run of about five or six miles all grass and perfectly straight up to 
Dunton Green. 
On the 3rd December we paid a visit to Upminster, where a good number of 
local people joined in, the line was kindly arranged by Messrs 11., J. and W. Eve, 
and Mr. Mathews. On 24th December we were stopped by frost, but this proved 
to be the only day lost during the whole season. 
The two best runs of the season were at Tonbridge on the 7th January and 
11th March. On each occasion we went down by special train in great force and 
lunched with Mr. Leonard Powell (of Chiselhurst) at the Rose and Crown. 
Mr. Powell had also invited the land-owners, who all seemed delighted to see us. 
After lunch and speeches the riding was a bit wild, and the tail hounds had a bad 
time ; there were about 60 riding, and a huge crowd of spectators, on the second 
occasion numbering nearly a thousand ; some brooks caused much grief and 
amusement. On the 12th January we were all invited to lunch with Sir Patteson 
Nickalls at Chislehurst, and had a good run in Scadbury Park, and all about the 
Old Eltham race course. We had three other good runs in Essex, one at East 
Plorndon arranged by Mr. Herbert Cole, another near Belhus Park and the third 
near Laindon arranged by Mr. Dalton, over the Essex Union Point to Point Course. 
The best home lines are still Orpington, Mottingham Lane, Farningham, and 
Bromley. 
The following lines were run during the season :— 
In October. 4 
Bexley and F'oots Cray . 5 
Danson and Shooters’ Hill. 2 
Scadbury Park . 1 
Bromley . 8 
Orpington . 4 
Chislehurst. 2 
Tonbridge . 2 
Dartford . 1 
Match v. Staff College Hounds ... 1 
Cai 
ried forwai 
d 25 
Brought 
Well Flail . 
Marshes . 
Farningham .. 
Westerham. 
Essex. 
Mottingham Lane 
Eltham . 
Lam orb ey . 
Trial on Marshes. 
forward 25 
. 3 
. 4 
. 3 
. 2 
3 
3 
2 
1 
Grand Total 50 
Towards the end of the season the ground again got hard, but not too bad to 
