78 FOX-HUNTING RECOLLECTIONS 



drive or not, and to my mind they are not of 

 much use without it. 



I have nothing but the most pleasant re- 

 collections of those happy hunting-grounds in 

 the New Forest, and in spite of '' Time who 

 steals our hours away/' my thoughts can still 

 linger in a vision of those delightful spring 

 mornings when I drew Matley Bog, and did not 

 draw in vain. 



