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FROM A HUNTING DIARY 



and hounds, which 

 you conjure; tlieni ; 



price, for what a com])ination of happy circumstances you 

 re(]uire to ensure the ris^ht thing! Vox, country, scent, horse, 

 of these could )ou do without ? Could 

 1 up at will with untold gold ? 'Faith, I 

 trow not. Do you pit\', or do you envy the man* who, having 

 secured a good start in this run, saw not a yard of it through a 

 ladv falling in front of him ? Such chances of self-denial do not 

 occur (tvery day ; but virtue has its own reward, and, staying- 

 out till the end of the day, he shared in the rattling gallop 

 from Matching Park that wound it up. 



A. C. Oldham 



Mr. Oldham secured a great bargain when he bought the 

 horse on which he is here shown. Certainly the chestnut ^\■as 

 an extraordinary good hunter, with great staying power, and 

 hardly knew how to fall, though, had he had the slightest 

 inclination that way, he could have indulged the propensity to 



Mr. T. R. Hull. 



