296 THE NOBLE SCIENCE. 



SO much indebted for the foUowmg plans of building, 

 and the requisite information therewith connected, it 

 would be difficult to express my own acknowledgments, 

 or our sense of the manner in which he, in courtesy, 

 endeavoured to act as the representative of his principal. 

 I cannot forbear the mention of one trait, as being in 

 unison with the features of this place : — On returning 

 our thanks to Mr. Northeast, for all the civility we had 

 experienced, and more which had been proffered, con- 

 veying, at the same time, our obligations to him for his 

 personal attendance, he assured us, that he should ill 

 have executed the intentions of Mr. A. Smith, if he had 

 done less for any gentleman engaged on a similar 

 errand. I felt prouder than ever of my country, and of 

 the characteristic of fox-hunters. 



When, in admiration of the kennel and stables, I 

 requested to be indulged with a plan of the structure, I 

 learned that at the time Mr. Assheton Smith fixed on the 

 site for the building, he gave a design with his pen on half 

 a sheet of paper, which was put to a scale, and executed 

 by his own carpenter and bricklayer, unaided by any 

 architect or surveyor; consequently, no general plans 

 were in existence; but on being acquainted with my 

 desire, he most kindly gave orders for the preparation of 

 these, for the purpose to which I have assigned them. 

 The Tedworth kennel is built on high ground, falling on 

 two sides ; an advantage precluding the necessity of 



