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MR. GARTH'S.* 



Me. Gaeth hunts a great expanse of varied country 

 on the right bank of the Thames — from about Reading 

 as far down the stream as the environs of London 

 will allow (practically Weybridge or thereabouts), and 

 southwards to include Aldershot and its precincts. 

 Henley, Maidenhead, Windsor, Staines, and Chertsey 

 are all posts on the northern border — none of then 

 names with a foxhunting ring about them. Woking 

 may be on the way to Happy Hunting Grounds ; bu: 

 it is certainly not in them. At Aldershot, the soldier 

 say, there is " a deal of hunting ; " but their share i 

 as much in the passive as the active form. They aru 

 rattled about at home daily, and forced into the open 

 at least once a week. The training is no doubt for 

 their good. At any rate they learn to be quick enoug^r 

 away whenever opportunity oflFers ; and never hang i 

 covert when it is open on the London side. But if aii 

 human beinghasrealised exactly theamount of enjoymehu 

 experienced by interesting Mrs. Reynard before hounds 

 on a warm April morning, it is the stout and elderly 

 captain of an infantry regiment as, on a lovely Jul / 



* " Stanford's Large Scale Map," sheets 21, 22, and 16 ; als 

 ^'Hobsou's Foxhunting Atlas." 



