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passed out through the narrow opening, never showing her 

 face. We were amused at this, which she perceiving, told us 

 the door was chained and padlocked, so she could not open 

 it wider. 



Soon after, while looking for an entrance to the fruit gar 

 den, we met a gamekeeper, who was followed by a pet cub 

 fox. He very obligingly, and with a gentlemanly manner 

 showed us through such parts of the establishment as he was 

 able to. There was nothing remarkable in the gardens or glass 

 houses, except some very large and wonderfully w T ell-trained 

 fruit trees on walls. Every thing was neglected now, however, 

 and we did no more than glance at them. There were some 

 new stables nearly finished, the plans of which I studied with 

 interest. Each horse is to have a private box for himself. 

 1 do not recollect the exact size, but it is at least twelve feet 

 square on the floor, and more than that high. In the ceiling 

 is a ventilator, and in one corner an iron rack for hay (much 

 like a fire-grate), and there is probably intended to be a, 

 small manger for fine and wet feed. There is a grating for 

 drainage in the floor, and, besides these, no other fixtures 

 whatever. The horse is to be left free within the walls. 



