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a mile from the castle, a cannon was fired, and as he drove up to the door the dinner was 

 served. What became of his lordship's guest who had not dressing-room and dress suits at 

 hand the chronicler does not mention. A simpler and cheaper plan than telegraph wires 

 would be the cultivating of the homing pigeons which Mr. Tegetmeier has made so popular. 

 A few deposited at farm-houses in a circle embracing the probable hunt might be loosed by 



THE FOX-HUNTEKS BOOT-JACK. 



a second horseman, with a cypher message for the cook or butler, when the master turned his 

 horse's head homewards. 



George III. did not manage his hunting so luxuriously as Lord Darlington, for he told 

 the Duke of Gloucester that, "when we hunt together, neither my brother (the Duke of 

 Cumberland) nor my son (the Prince of Wales) will speak to me ; and one day lately, when 

 the chase ended at a little village where there was only one post-chaise, my son and brother 

 got into it and drove away to London, leaving me to ride to Windsor in a cart, if I could 

 get one."* 



" Memoirs of Ch.arles James Fox," by Lord John Russell. 



