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of country met with whilst following these 

 packs. With Lord Rothschild's, the glorious 

 Vale of Aylesbury lies stretched before you ; 

 all grass, practically ; fair fences, with not a 

 few brooks. You want a jumper here, and 

 a galloper as well ; but it is by no means a 

 very big country. Compared with parts of 

 Northamptonshire, or with the average tract 

 galloped over by, say, the Blackmoor Yale or 

 Cattestock, it is an easy one to ride over ; 

 and certainly I know none more pleasant. 

 The Queen's varies very much indeed. Some 

 parts are first-rate, and others — well, are not ! 

 The Mid-Kent get some beautiful pieces of 

 jumping and galloping ground in the vicinity 

 of Maidstone and Wateringbury, but on the 

 Farningham side it is not at all good. In the 

 former part plenty of grass and flying fences ; 

 in the latter, flint stones, cold clay, and sticky 

 fallow ; while the immense w^oodlands make 

 things even worse for the West Kent Fox- 

 hounds than they are for the more artificial 

 sport of stag-hunting. With the Crawley and 

 Horsham Fox, and the Warnham Stag, a most 



