20 SKETCHES IN THE HUNTING FIELD. 



This will seem very ungallant, perhaps very selfish, 

 to those who have not suffered at Miss Kitty's hands ; 

 but, having chosen her for the subject of this sketch, the 

 truth must be written about her — for truth is great and 

 will prevail, and if we said we were delighted to see 

 Miss Kitty come out hunting it would simply be en- 

 couraging Satan. 



Old Trewson — " Squire " Trewson — is not by any 

 means a bad old fellow. He votes blue, generally 

 manages to have a fox in his coverts^ is liberal in his 

 subscriptions to deserving objects, and entertains the 

 young soldiers from the nearest garrison even to the 

 extent of finding a mount for them. When he does 

 those things which he ought not to do, the slips are 

 unintentional ; for Trewson is new to the part of 

 " Squire " which it now delights him to adopt, and his 

 growth hardly favours his present development. 



Trewson sprung from the City, was bedded out in the 

 neighbourhood of Russell Square, transplanted to the 

 Bayswater district, and only bloomed and flowered as 

 " Squire " late in life. What induced him to come and 

 live in the country, and stud}^ the part of a country 

 gentleman, it would be difficult to say. The facts that 

 he did so, and does so, remain ; and hence Miss Kitty's 

 introduction to JMeadowmere. 



Her early studies in horse-flesh must have been drawn 

 from the beasts that dragged omnibuses past her 

 father's shop ; and her knowledge of pace can only 

 have been gained from the speed of the animal in the 



