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his halls and stables will hold on that occasion, and 

 many of my happiest hours have been spent beneath 

 the Greenway roof. As long as a greyhound is left 

 me, it shall always help to fill up the list of those 

 stakes, for it is a meeting, a county meeting I may 

 call it, so pleasing to gentleman and yeoman, squire 

 and tenant, that for the good of local society every 

 friend of Mr. Lawrence should do his best to keep it 

 up. Between whiles at the coursing meeting, it is 

 pleasing to any man fond of farming to see in the 

 Greenway farm-yard as clever a cow and pig as any 

 agriculturist can wish to arrive at. There is a good 

 deal of fun in the round of beef and the leg of pork 

 the Greenway table affords on a cold day, after 

 coursing ! 



Having had two years' experience of hunting and 

 coursing in Wiltshire, and some wild-fowl shooting, 

 the latter, as I enjoyed it there, is also worthy of 

 notice. In passing the lake at Fonthill, and also 

 in the water in front of Mr. Penruddock's house, 

 still nearer to Teffont, I had observed the various 

 sorts of Avild-fowl, and in hard weather I had killed 

 some in the river over which I shot. Upon this 

 I fenced in the little lake on the lawn at Teffont 

 with wattled hurdles, putting the hurdles back in 

 the plantations and pleasure-grounds just out of 

 sight, and on the water put pinioned pairs of the 

 various fowl I had seen — the duck, the polchard, the 

 widgeon, teal, and tufted duck, — and in a short time, 

 just at dusk, I could hear the whistling wings of 

 strano;ers comino- to see them. The first time of hard 

 weather, when more stagnant waters were frozen, 

 filled my little lake full of fowl. Gardeners dared 

 not sneeze, much less show themselves, on the mar- 



