Hunt on February 9 atta 4 rie Minghong Read Hunt tat Wy it Tiefenbacher Under conditions that were ideal for riders but miserable for spectators a big field of nearly 70 tamed out to the start of one of Ticfentrcher's hunts in the far Minghong country.
'The hunt started from the fa! jast beyond No. 4 Bridge, miles from nowhere, and the field mediately ran into a wade with father a dificult approach. The leaders, probably inking that paper had' been laid there by some wag, to add to the gaiety Jot the day for the assembled villagers, took the hunt for a merry Fun en the the high ground, and the hunt, 8 hunts do, obediently followed.
'They had to return, however, and the local gentry were rot deprived of their. anticipated Jenjoyment. K. M. Cumming' was [deposited in the middle of this creek boy" his unfriendly mount, who snorting with joy joined the leaders, only to be promptly caught, and restored to his shivering but great-{ful owner. Landale took the bridge, and evidently thinking that this was not in the rales. of paper hunting jumped off into the the creek, not game for a day like Saturday, the creek was by no means dry!
After that the hunt went off into unknown country obviously wondering if they would ever return, and according to the chat that went on later in the evening, went through #09 wades and. mud-hotes and took four jumps, Each jump and mode Nolo claimed its oil, and there sas amount of ges", few. thiers finishing: who had not been in some: thing wet and muddy.
The run in, which for two mik was visible to spectators, found whole hunt well together and pont going splendidly. The finish was Very exciting with Bowling and Harris neck and neck both aspiring to the pink, but the inferior jump-fof Bowling's mount. Canadian Jat the finish gave Harris the lead by a neck, 1. M. Marri on Sandy OX)
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