OUR REGENT DRAG HUNTS.

Patea Mail, 26 August 1880, Page 3

OUR REGENT DRAG HUNTS.

Bik, —Recreation and sport are both good in their way, I admit , and the adage that “ work, still all work without any play,” &c, holds truthful and clear to this very day. Yet may I ask, could not our recent runs have been made more pleasant, more exciting, and more r casy to the multitude out for the fun than unfortunately happened ? Take Kakaramca for instance, and let a timid orphan suggest or imagine a role (the latter word is perhaps too suggestive in conjunction with a horse, but let it slide—not the horse) while I proceed. Given the hounds and the land and the hunters, wc start all, the whole, everybody after the rhodium. The meet has taken place in a fifty acre field, at a friendly fanner’s homo. Resin for the knees, where needful, may there have been obtained; to others mugs of stuff styled “that’s more gummy still.” After a canter of three hundred yards or so, the first obstacle apycars; It was a trifle to me, a three feet ditch below a wattle fence to order made “ expressly for the colonics,” good enough yet not exalted. Wanned and excited by the gentle gallop, I get over smoothly ; every one else did. I saw them (ladies included). As wc proceeded, the hedges exceeded the last, but were never prodigious to leaders. Fortunately not being gummed to a Sunra}" or Eagle, I did not got to them too early, but speedily moved through tiie gaps. The hoped for goal is seen full fifty chains away, but all is flat to travel. 1 was not far behind but could see the perfumed Maori cur with oil and anise rubbed, or rabbit, or cat, slipped as the drag was raised. Ob, then the fun ! T’was a genuine run ; and the dogs had something to kill! The end of it was> wc all rode home quite happy and lavish. Hunting’s so easy and pleasant. Horses were bought, and everyone thought they’d suberibe to a pack for the parish. Yours, Salubrious.