THE CHACE. 
to become a fashion with persons whose hereditary pos- 
sessions lie far from its allurements. It is all very well 
to go through the training of the acknowledged school 
of " the craft ; " but the country gentleman who under- 
stands his duties, and in what the real permanent 
pleasure of life exists, will never settle down into a 
regular Meltonian. He will feel that his first concern 
is with his own proper district, and seek the recreations 
of the chace, if his taste for them outlives the first hey- 
day of youth, among the scenes, however comparatively 
rude, in which his natural place has been appointed. 
