The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-06-21

p WAS after hunting dinner and there
many scarlet coats black ones round the
8 table. The conversation over the cigars had
turned, therefore, in the direction of horses and
horsemen. with "reminiscences of phenomenal runs.
The master had told tall "reminiscences,
and when he cleared his throat for another
all curious for he bit Of artist in his way.
1T before 1 master said he. Sir
Charles Adair had the hounds at that time. 1t
possibly nave been Just after Lathom TOOK lhe RouGs
over but my strong impression Is that II was AGAR
time. That would be early in the seventies-about
I dare say that some of you can remember Dan
bury-WaIter DanbUry Wat Danbury, as people
bury Of High Ascombe. and when his father died he
came into very good thing 1t was but few hund-
were great days for farming
low rider and thorough sportsman, but his head
or two There was hard-drnILing set in the neigh
borhood that time, and Danbury got drawn in
among them; and being amiabe fellow, he very
soon took to drinking a great deal more than
good for him. It really looked as if the poor chap
was going to the bad when a. very curious thing
happened which pulled him up with such sudden
jerk that ne never put his hand upon the neck Of
whisky bottle again.
Being a tough, cpen-air fellow, who was always
hard nail, it seldom that there
anything amiss with him. but last the drink began
10 tell and ne woke one morning with ms nands
shaking and all his nerves tngling like Overstretched
fiddle strings. He very much alarmed at his
own CONDITION ana ne sent Tor Dr. middleton OF
Ascombe, the father of the man who practices there
Middleton had been a great friend old Dan
bury's and he was very sOTry to see his son going
his very seriously. He shook his head and talked
about the possibility of delirium tremens or even
Of mama. Wat Danbury horribly frightened.
- Do you really think am going to get anything
We'll really I don't know said the doctor
graveIy I cannot undertake to say that you
ont of danger. At any time during the day you might
have those grave SYMPTOMS of which warn you
You think i shall be safe by evening"
no nervous symptoms before evening think you may
consider yourself safe answered the doctor
What symptoms may / expect? asked Danbury
It generally takes the optical delusions.
I see specks floating all about
That's mere bliousness. said the doctor sOoth-
ingy, for he did not wish to Overdo it I dare saw
when they do come they usually take the shape Of IN
sects. or reptiles OF curious animals
And if Z anything Of the kind?
If you you will once send for me- And
50 with promise of medicine the doctor departed.
1uoped about the room feeling very miserab bic
unstrung is very exhilarating to be watching
jack to whether it is still bootjaek whether
it has begun to develop antennae and less At last
a half mile of him? If he was going to have these
have them the sooner the worse because he was
on horseback in the open. And s it came about
that in ten minutes he was in his hunting kit and
I'm he riding out Of his stable yard with
his roam mare. Matilda between his knees He
little unsteady in the saddle just first. but the
further the better felt, until by the time
he reached the meet his head was almost clear and
there nothing troubling him except those haunt
ing words Of the doctors about the possibility Of
decisions any time before ughtfall-
1t was Just the morning for the scent-no wind
TO blow it water to wash II out. and Just
damp enough to make it cling. There field Of
forty, all keen and good riders
when they came to Black Hanger the field took
their positions along the side wherever they
thought that they most likely TO get a good
start Young Wat Danbury knew the country like
palm of his hand, he made for place where
drives intersected, and there he waited He
had feeling that the faster and the further he gal
Ioped the better he should be. His too was in
the height fettle and of the fastest gOers in
the country Wat a splendid lightweight rider
and the a powerful creature, all quarters
and shoulders, fit to carry life guardsman. 1t
we'll trained pack and there not much
a whine to tell you that forty hounds were working
all round you.
And suddenly there came IOng-drawn yell
from OF them, and it taken UP by another
and another until within a few seconds the whole
pack was giving tongue together and running
hot scent. Danbury them stream across one of
drives and disappear the other side, and
an later the three red coats of the hunt
wants flashed after them upon the same line. Right
through the wood they in Decline, gallOping
With their faces brushed by their horses names
hey stopped under the branches It's ugly going
as you know. but you take a risk when you catch
an occasional glimpse of the pack running with a
breast-high scent, in and they lodged, until
the wood began thin the edges. and they found
themselves in the long bottom where the river
1t is clear going there upon the grassland and the
hounds running very strong about 200 yards
ahead. keeping parallel with the stream. Danbury
with the hunt servants had clear lead, and they