4

Lunch being thus speedily terminated the Club again
started out on the Penetentiary Road as far as Mr Kirkpatrick's
carriage drive, thence homeward & reassembled with Royal
Artillery Park where the next day of meeting was announced by the
Vice President as also the nomination of the new V.P.

The V.P. being in a position to note the various occurrencies
during the day's excursion, congratulates the
Club upon its well appointed sleighs, and cattle generally as
also upon the good order preserved throughout the drive & these
were but three instances under the notice of the V.P. in which
members were unable to follow their leader throuought the run.

The horse ("Dan O'Connell") + his master, (though old friends)
it appeared held very different opinions upon that particular
occasion, some say upon the question of "Repale of the union",
if so, the former decidedly carried his point by parting company
with the club at the critical time when nearing the mansion of
the hospitable President. -

Much commiseration was excited in favor of those two
gallant charioteers, Messrs Morrison & Sedley, by the disappointment
they experienced just prior to the assembling of the Club. It appears
that the flunky having harnessed their horses in readiness, and on
entering the stable for the purpose of putting them to, one
of the steeds taking advantage of the door being open, with a snort,
invited his companion to probably to the effect of the words of Tom
Moore,
"Fly to the Desert fly with me"
and away they did fly together, not to the Desert though,