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that extensive estate ; yet more than that, 

 through every house within the precincts of 

 the hunt, and, I may add, in the good 

 county of Lincohi. On the first occasion of 

 my meeting the hounds at Wootton, Mr. 

 Field Nicholson appeared at the door of his 

 house, prepared to proffer the jumping pow- 

 der to all, whether friends or strangers. 

 And then again at Wootton, sherry and 

 biscuits, ale and bread and cheese, were in 

 abundant supply, and there was a large field 

 ready to do justice to Mr. Farraday's kind 

 offerings. In the course of my peregrinations 

 I have seen fields of all kinds, from the 

 aristocratic meetings with the Quorn to those 

 of the most provincial packs, but I must do 

 the members of this hunt the justice to 

 declare I never saw a field so well appointed 

 in every respect as regards the appropriate 

 turn out of a sportsman. Well mounted, in 

 the true acceptation of the term, horses 

 looking fit, men well dressed, but without any 

 affectation of being "got up," which is a style 

 as repugnant to good taste as is the reverse 

 — slovenliness. There was, indeed, one little 

 omission that I noticed " they don't wear 

 knee ties," An unhappy-looking individual, 



