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possession of one who never knew any other place 

 than that of Fnst m the first flight, and whose means of 

 administering to his will had never been fettered by 

 considerations of the " res angiista domi." The ser- 

 vants' horses are also consistent with the general ap- 

 pointments. Were I to pursue the course common in 

 descriptions of this kind, I might have refreshed this 

 chapter with the usual gossip — by the relation of what 

 the stud-groom thought, as to the chances of Derby or 

 Oaks, according to the future promise of the Tedworth 

 paddocks — of all that the huntsman said upon the 

 strength of his own ideas on the subjects of our con- 

 ference, with many other trifles, of individual rather 

 than of general interest ; but, in this cursory view of 

 Tedworth, I have carefully avoided entering into details 

 to which I am incapable of doing justice, desirous only 

 to give an outline of an establishment which is, in 

 every respect, an honour to the cause which I am 

 advocating. I consider the manner in which fox-hunt- 

 ing is conducted on this side of a county where it is 

 well carried on in every quarter, a fine specimen of the 

 thing "done well, and as it should be done." I have 

 only to add, that Mr. Assheton Smith has thus provided 

 for the sport of his own neighbourhood, hunting four 

 days a week, solely at his own expense ; to repeat, that 

 the successM result of his endeavours has left him no 

 cause to repent of change of country ; and (as my only 



