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guest is well kept up. Your coming should be 

 announced in advance ; and you are received as 

 in some sort a member of the family, whose 

 ways are made to conform more or less to the 

 wishes of yourself and your convives, mainly 

 young swells from London, who are few, and who 

 are there, as you are, not for business, but for 

 rest, good living, and regular sport. Three packs 

 of hounds are within reach ; and on the days 

 when none of the meets is near, there is always 

 the " larking " — the training of young horses 

 — to supply a good substitute, so far as the 

 riding goes. One who cares for hunting pure 

 and simple, rather than for the gayer life of 

 Leamington and Cheltenham, cannot do better 

 than to make the season, or a part of it, at the 

 Haycock, with regularly engaged horses for as 

 many days in the week as he may choose to 

 ride. It costs, — but it pays. One is none the 

 less welcome among the guests for being an 

 American. 



I there had a day with the George Fitz William 

 hounds. Not being, as yet, quite at home in the 



