6 The Teteott Hunt CJUeek. 



as I could not possibly gain my seat on the saddle, 

 except by some feat of agility unknown to him, 

 simple landsman that he was." 



But in course of time our gallant friend was able 

 to follow hounds, though he sometimes came a 

 header over the port or starboard bows. 



Two years after the coming of this ocean swell 

 upon us, when I was the proud and happy owner of 

 a clever cob, and beginning to feel myself really a 

 member of the hunt, joy and gladness fled from our 

 hitherto happy home. My mother died. And my 

 father, who was old and infirm — he had married 

 very late in life — was ordered by his doctors to the 

 South of France. I accompanied him thither, and, 

 after ten years' sojourn in a foreign land, returned 

 alone to my once bright and joyous home. How 

 changed it seemed without those kind and loving 

 ones who had made it such a happy home to me. 

 But it is in itself the same beautiful old place, and I 

 must try to make it the same happy one to myself 

 and all about me that it was of yore. Farming will 

 add to its interest : a dairy and poultry yard to its 

 comfort. 



I have the home farm on hand, and am about to 

 stock it. An agent is to buy some cows for me on 

 Wednesday. I am not knowing enough to do so 

 myself. Mistakes are sometimes made by the in- 

 experienced. I remember my father's story of a 



