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vants. Impertinence, or insolent indifference, is seldom 

 met with, but in tlie tinselled lacquey of the purse-proud 

 parvenu ; but it is not always that things will show such 

 evidence of the master's eye, when he is some hundred 

 miles removed, as those which must attract the notice 

 of any observant stranger at Tedworth. Here, from the 

 huntsman to the helper — from the stud-groom to the 

 stable-boy — from servants within to those without doors, 

 all bespoke the retinue of a man maintaining that elevated 

 position in society, which I would hold as one (and 

 that not amongst the least) of the qualifications of a 

 master of foxhounds. To Mr. Northeast, the gentle- 

 man officiating as agent for Mr. A. Smith, to whom I am 

 so much indebted for the following 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 tixiit, 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 



