The Archive · 1881

PAPER HUNTS

Successful as the majority of the Paper Hunts have been during the present season; this result has not been accomplished without many difficulties, and these difficulti en surmounted more or less at the the spectators, This was the case on Saturday, the 29th ult., when the inconvenience the spectators were subjected to, to enable them to see the finish, was greater than we remember on any previous occasion; but as paper-hunting is not for their enjoyment, but for the pleasure of the ideas, they have no cause for complaint. In other respects, however, the Hunt on Saturday was not a great success, mainly owing to the state of the weather; it was and not too cold to mar the enjoyment of those who take a keen interest in the sport, but a strong wind was blowing, which rendered it almost impossible for the paper to be laid so that it could be followed. The foxes did the best they could under the circumstances, and the riders, at the conclusion of the Hunt, expressed pleasure at the run they had, though they did not disguise the fact that the checks were not few or far between, and that sometimes they were galloping across the country without any paper at all. The inconvenience we have referred to, as experienced by the spectators, was changing the place where the flags wore originally placed for the finish, about a mile down the Jessfield Road, a thing which has not been a rare occurrence at the other hunts given during the season; but in this particular instance it would seem that the persons who had blindered, iniammucl: as Chinese in charge of the flags were' the

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