#3 Bottom-Feeder’s Place – Rehashed

Run # 3 Turnout – 2+2+2 (2 hares + 2 hounds + 2 non-runners) – The Jazz BarHP was a virgin hare on this momentous day when the number of hares equalled the number of hounds. Her co-hare scribe was accused later in the circle of taking a virgin into the tombs, but said in his defence that he didn’t know that at the time. The desultory turnout does not augur well for the future, because if the current decline in numbers continues, next week there will be a turnout of -5. Natalie made new ground in HZH3 history by choosing to simultaneously come for her first run and yet not run. Ivy was a welcome arrival, when things were looking very grim, and Bottom Feeder was the last arrival with the drinks trough, reporting that Skidmarks was seen around the corner with a tennis racket, forsaking the hash.  When Ivy and BF finally took off on a very late start, scribe Pushup sought to guide them past the checks and FTs after the time warp forest shack with birdcage. In fact the 2 hounds were found creeping through a factory compound, well off the path. They regaled your scribe with tales of fierce rabid dogs, which proved to be a Bottom Feeder ambit claim, as all that was found was the forester tending his birds. The trail wended past a variety of tombs strewn up the wooded hill side until it was a bush bash to another tomb area and the climb to the top of Laohe Hill and regroup, unnecessary for a pack of 2. The clogged atmosphere filtered what would have been a fine view, but beggars can’t be choosers, you take what you can. The FT at the top was overkill in keeping the pack together, before the descent down “mesmerising staircase