THE BADMINTON HUNT. 



/^BSERVANT tourists can scarcely fall 

 to notice, when they arrive within 

 the precincts of a large family estate, one 

 that has been inherited for centuries. 

 The well-constructed farmhouses display 

 prosperity and gladness ; even the labourers' 

 cottages proclaim the comfort of the in- 

 habitants. The fields exhibit the effects 

 of superior cultivation, the fences are in 

 excellent order, and stately timber trees 

 adorn the domain. All these happy com- 

 binations are the more conspicuous, when 

 the owner is attached to the soil by a love 

 for field sports ; more strongly, too, when 

 foxhounds have descended as heirlooms 

 with the land. 



