

ANALYSIS OF THE HUNTING FIELD 



CHAPTER I 



THE MASTER. MONTH, OCTOBER 



ITH a very slight touch of 

 summer,* here we are again 

 close upon hunting — nay, 

 in some parts it has com- 

 menced already. In London 

 the "sear and yellow leaf" 

 reminds us of the old " red 

 rag." What can compensate 

 ^■-S^fc^^iiB^ -^--«^4i23- vrt;u.«i^ for the beauties of departing 



summer, but the glories of 

 the chase ? Confound it, we believe we'd almost compound 



* The summer of 1845 was singularly wet and unseasonable ; for further 

 particulars, see Preface. 



