III. 



A YOUNG HUNTING LADY. 



If Kitty Trewson were to express her candid and de- 

 cided opinion, supposing that modesty did not stand in 

 the way of frankness, she would admit that she con- 

 siders her presence at the covert-side one of the great 

 attractions which give distinction to the Meadowmere 

 Hounds ; that the day she first came out hunting will 

 ever be held as blessed in the annals of the chase, and 

 that when from any unavoidable cause she is absent 

 from the meet, a gloom falls upon the assembly, and the 

 business of the day is entered upon with a feeling of 

 grave depression. 



This is Miss Kitty's view of the subject, I am con- 

 vinced, but it is not very generally entertained by 

 members of the hunt at large ; in fact, it is hardly tea 

 much to say that Miss Kitty is regarded as an unmiti- 

 gated nuisance ; and on those occasions when she is 

 hung up in a thick fence, or dropped gently into an 

 oozy ditch, an unholy smile lights up the countenances 

 of those cavaliers who, without appearing rude or 

 neglectful, can escape the task of rescuing her from her 

 distressing predicament. 



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