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to believe that we were not in some remote Higliland 

 district instead of within half an hour of a town of 

 70,000 inhabitants. 



The costumes of the field, more exact than the pre- 

 vious day, showed that the master was considered worthy 

 of the compliment; and when, the mist clearing, the 

 beautiful black-and-tan pack, all of a size, and as like as 

 peas, came clustering up with Mr. Saxby, a white-haired, 

 healthy, fresh-coloured, neat-figured, upright squire, 

 riding in the midst on a rare black horse, it was a pic- 

 ture that, taking in the wild heathland scenery, the deep 

 valleys below, bright in sun, the dark hills beyond it, was 

 indeed a bright page in the poetry of field sports. 



The Brookside are as good and honest as they are 

 handsome ; hunting altogether almost entirely without 

 assistance. If they have a fault they are a little too fast 

 for hare-hounds. After killing the second hare, we v/ere 

 able to leave Brighton by the 3.30 p m. train. Thus, 

 under modern advantages, a man troubled with indiges- 

 tion has only to order a horse by post the previous day, 

 leave town at eight in the morning, bave a day's gallop, 

 with excitement more valuable than gallons of physic, 

 and be back in town by half-past five oclock. Can eight 

 hours be passed more pleasantly or profitably? 



PBINCE ALBERT S HARRIERS. 



The South-Western Eail made a very good hack up 

 to the Castle station. 



That Prince Albert should never have taken to the 

 Eoyal stag-hounds is not at all surprising. It requires 

 to be *' to the manner born " to endure the vast jostling, 



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