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artist's treatment of his subject in the picture 

 at Skelton Castle. There is no fox, there is 

 not a fence, there is not a covert, there is 

 not even a picturesque top-hat or top-boot. 

 The picture is called " A Summer's Day in 

 Cleveland," and the scene is on the beach, 

 — hounds swimming, splashing, and dashing 

 out of a tidal pool on a sunny morning, 

 accompanied by the old squire on a pony, the 

 young squire (master and huntsman), and 

 two servants in pink exercising coats, the 

 picture combining the beautiful animation of 

 the hounds with a wonderful harmony of 

 colour and poetry of scene. Behind, the 

 sparkling splash and spray, in the foreground 

 are the breakers, whose white foam fades 

 into the deeper grey of the North Sea and 

 then into the pale blue of a summer sky, 



