NCE more, regardless of Mr. Punch's admonition regarding writing to the papers, the urge comes over me to grasp the quill and splash the ink, This time, however, one cannot be accused of an endeavour to prejudge a point at issue or of an effort to prejudice public opinion on a principle.
No, the reason is the nearness to one's heart of the subject and its great interest to a very considerable number of our community, so no excuses need be offered.
When memory is cast back over the past ten years and it is realized thatthe total number of genuinely interested and jovial-minded spectators at-our "Hunts", with special emphasis on that of each successive Christmas" Day, runs into - many thousands, and that of the competltors themselves into not a few of the same unit, then It will be under stood how great an appeal has this, est of winter pastimes to so. large aggregate of our fellow citizens embracing s0 many nationalities.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.