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to believe that we were not in some remote Highland 

 district instead of within half an hour of a town of 

 70,000 inhabitants. 



The costumes of the field, more exact than the pre- 

 vious day, showed that the master was considered worthy 

 of the compliment; and when, the mist clearing, the 

 beautiful black-and-tan pack, all of a size, and as like as 

 peas, came clustering up with Mr. Saxby, a white-haired, 

 healthy, fresh-coloured, neat-figured, upright squire, 

 riding in the midst on a rare black horse, it was a pic- 

 ture that, taking in the wild heathland scenery, the deep 

 valleys below, bright in sun, the dark hills beyond it, was 

 indeed a bright page in the poetry of field sports. 



The Brookside are as good and honest as they are 

 handsome; hunting, all together, almost entirely without 

 assistance. If they have a fault they are a little too fast 

 for hare-hounds. After killing the second hare, we were 

 able to leave Brighton by the 3.30 P.M. train. Thus, 

 under modern advantages, a man troubled with indiges- 

 tion has only to order a horse by post the previous day, 

 leave town at eight in the morning, have a day's gallop, 

 with excitement more valuable than gallons of physic, 

 and be back in town by half-past five o'clock. Can eight 

 hours be passed more pleasantly or profitably ? , 



PRINCE ALBERT S HARRIERS. 



The South- Western Bail made a very good hack up 

 to the Castle station. 



That Prince Albert should never have taken to the 

 Boyal stag-hounds is net at all surprising. It requires 

 to be " to the manner born " to endure the vast jostling, 



