50 /;/ Scarlet and Silk 



In these busy times, when the vast majority 

 of men are engaged in some occupation re- 

 quiring constant attendance in London, it 

 may not be out of place to indicate a few 

 of the countries which can be conveniently 

 reached from there on the hunting morning. 

 Between the pleasure of hunting from home 

 and hunting from London, I think there can 

 be hardly any comparison drawn. We should 

 all like to hunt from home ; but, unfortu- 

 nately, we don't all get what we like in 

 this bad world, and if we can't hunt from 

 home, many can snatch a day's enjoyment 

 here and there by using the iron horse as a 

 covert hack. 



The Queen's Staghounds, Lord Kothschild's, 

 and the Mid-Kent are all the more easily 

 accessible on account of the later hour at 

 which they meet — 11.30 and 12 o'clock re- 

 spectively — and may well be reached without 

 the awful ordeal of "getting up in the middle 

 of the night." The Essex Staghounds, which 

 go three days a fortnight, mostly over the 

 Roothings, and the Warnham, in the Crawley 



