The meet at the Rifle Butts was well attended, and punctually at 3 p.m. some 30 or 40, gallant members of our Hunt, started onthe track of paper previously laid out by the Foxes. The Hongkew country, as a rule, is generally condemned by the majority of our riders as muddy and unfit to hunt over, and no doubt to an inexperienced hand its tidal creeks prove a snare and delusion, but a man fairly acquainted with the leading features in the Toveatle of sivieg & good Paps Hinnb physical geography of that district, should
over its low lying fields and deeply cut ruts. This last was happily the case on Saturday Messrs. Dunn and Low picked out a line of country which, though twisting about a good deal at times, gave the Huat all the
the ditches were well calculated to test the port they could possibly desire, "Many of heart of the riders, and the jumping powers of the ponies, and in cases where either the former or the latter, or perhaps a percentage of both, failed, grief indescribable was witnessed. We noticed one well known heavy weight (who, by the bye, hailing from Hongkew, ought to have been better acquainted with the main drainage of the creeks intersecting that country,) fall heavily backward and become completely immersed in miry depths. "The torrent roared," so indeed did the spectators, at the sight of our rider and his pony spluttering and "buffeting with Iusty sinews" their muddy difficulties. Another young dashing embryotic rider, recently enrolled as a member of the Wunt, who merely came out for the first time just to see what it was like," met an early doom in a miry ditch, from which he rose with game ruined and ambition gone. "This is the state of man" in the accidents of Paper Hunting—
When he fal he fil ike Kifer, never rose agai."
Aiter a run of some five or six miles, the paper crossed the Soochow Creek at' the Stone Bridye, and turning towards the Boat-house and round the Cunton cemete over the Cross-road and old Bubbling We rond, finished at the Two-mile Bridge, where a crowd of spectators witnessed a hard struggle for the first place between five or six ponies, which was finally gained by Mr. Walker on "Apollyon." Mr.
Harvey was close up behind, claiming the heavy weight.
Some complaints were made that, the paper was badly Inid. We hardly think this was the case. Certainly there were a great many checks during the run, but we believe they were caused almost entirely by a too eager portion of the field who would continually over-ride the paper. We have often seen the same class of men over-ride hounds in ahunting field at Home. There they are generally called back pretty sharply by the master, and in course of time Year not to repeat the fault, After a we noticed a heavy weight gentleman slip away quietly in the direction he thought the paper lay. He was followed by a large proportion of the field, who after a furious gallop of more {hap half-mile without paper, had to come back looking very sheepish, to the place where paper was last seen by the Hunt.
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