UNDER THE KENT HILLS 



HERE are no barn-door 



pheasants on D 's 



little manor at the foot 

 of the Kentish hills. A 

 few brace of wild birds 

 are always to be found 

 in the copses, spinneys, 

 and high double hedge- 

 rows which abound on 

 the property, however, 

 while a very fair bag of 

 partridges, hares, and 

 rabbits, with an occasional mallard, teal, or snipe, 

 gleaned from the banks of the sedge and ozier-fringed 

 river which forms a curved boundary round two sides 

 of the place, thrown in, is generally obtainable. 



It was a delightful November morning, as I drove 

 along the three miles of bracken-fringed, leaf -strewn high- 

 way which led from the " one hoss " little railway 

 station of Y , and wound in and out amongst dis- 

 mantled hop gardens, orchards, woods and copses, until 

 it took me to the lodge gates of my friend's picturesque 

 Georgian manor house. 



D and my fellow-guests were awaiting my 



arrival, and, ample justice having been done to the 

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