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Seventh Meeting
of the K.D. Club, 15th Febr.
1850
President - Lieut. Morrison, Royl Engrs
Vice President - Doctor Yates.

In defiance of the weather and the snow drifts, a small
number of sleighs assembled at the Tête de Pont Barracks,
and after waiting a reasonable time for reinforcements (which
never arrived) the line was led off in dashing style. The first
deserter from our ranks, was a gallant veteran, whose ardor for the
chase, was damped by the difficulties that lay before him; but,
unmindful of this: our President, who, thro'out the day, displayed
a spirit of enterprise and daring, truly heroic, after leading thro'
the Town, directed his course across the cataraqui, when our spirits
were again damped by another desertion; but this time,
we felt little surprise, as the bright eyes that usually grace
this pretty turn-out, were wanting. The remaining [underline] nine [/underline] sleighs,
for to this melancholy number we were reduced, wound up Barriefield
hill, at a rapid pace, and took the road to Kingston Mills:
Our progress there, being unmarked by any incident worthy of note,
further than the occasional and determined "bolts" of the tandem
leader, which manoeuver, from long practice, was as adroitly gone