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FOX-HOUND, FOREST, AND PRAIRIE. 



more than all in the Forest is the facility with which one can 

 get about, and how much more one can see of the work of 

 hounds than I had been led to suppose. And if, during the 

 excitement of the chase, a stranger is impelled towards danger 

 or difficulty, the courtesy of the habitues is invariably exercised 

 to stop him. 



I must crave permission to complete my jottings with the 

 addition of some few names. Among the field on the second 

 day were, Lord Londesborough (who drove Major Candy to the 

 meet on a prairie buckboard), Lord Kaincliffe, Lady Raincliffe 

 driving, Mr. Bradbourne (ex-Master of the New Forest Fox- 

 hounds), Captain and Miss Kinglake from Exmoor, Mr. and 

 Mrs. Proctor-Baker from the Duke of Beaufort's country, also 

 Mr. Harford from the same Hunt, Hon. R. C. and Mrs. Trollope 

 from Somersetshire, Mr. Esdaile (present Master of the West 

 Somersetshire) and Colonel Esdaile, Col. Powell and Mr. Powell, 

 Mr. Wingrove (Hon. Sec. N.F.F.H.), Mr. Bathurst, Major Otway 

 (who during the day experienced the alarming predicament of 



