150 THE MERRY GEE-GEE 



unless you are almost on the top of the 

 hounds you can*t see them work, and that 

 to my mind is a deprivation of one of the 

 principal charms of the chase. Out of a 

 field of 500 here, though, I don't suppose 

 more than about 100 care a hang what 

 the hounds are hunting, and another 

 hundred would prefer they never found 

 at all. Still, there are a few who really 

 go, and don't half go, either; but the 

 majority are assisting only at a social 

 function, inhaling pure oxygen, and get- 

 ting an appetite for their dinners. 



A young swell is hardly properly 

 entered till he has done a Melton season, 

 I presume ; but for young Archibald, 

 Plantagenet, Trevelyan, Browne (son of 

 old Jasper Brown, of Peckham Rye), I 

 should recommend Leamington, Chelten- 

 ham, or Leigh ton Buzzard. We are a 

 bit ultra down here, but less so than of 



