142 WITH HOUND AND TERRIER. 



The good deer Lady Wolverton was uncarted, 

 and we waited about the yard at Kossiter's Farm 

 while she had a start. Among the field, beside 

 the Master and Major Whyte-Melville, there were 

 Lady Theodora Grosvenor, Captain Paget and 

 Captain the Hon. Alfred Byng, both of the 7th 

 Hussars, Major Ness, Mr Digby Collins, H. Harris, 

 who acted as pilot to Lady Theodora, and a 

 goodly gathering of farmers and others. Then 

 hounds were let out, and we followed them at a 

 canter till they reached the deer-cart, where the 

 fun began. Lady Theodora that day was riding a 

 horse named Mars, and I was on Countess. We 

 now had to gallop our best over two or three 

 fields in the direction of the Marnhull road. 

 Suddenly hounds swung round to the right, and 

 the six of us who were together found ourselves 

 faced by a big double, which more than one good 

 horse refused. Countess, happily for me, was not 

 among them, and Lady Theodora, Major Ness, Mr 

 Digby Collins, H. Harris, and E. Harris all came 

 over in turn, and keeping the hounds in view, we 

 raced over one of the stiffest lines in the Vale. 

 But we had no time to look at the big fences as 

 they came, or to choose a place ; over we must go 

 if we would not lose the fortune that was ours, 

 for the Master and the rest of the field had been 

 thrown out by the sharp turn hounds had made 

 by Andrew's Farm, and we knew the good things 

 of the day were for us alone. 



By Margaret's Marsh hounds swung round once 



