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a letter from her to The Field, supplemented 

 by more substantial proofs of goodwill. 



" Mr. Guest hunts his own pack himself 

 twice a week, and I regret that I had to select a 

 day for a visit to the kennel when that 

 gentleman had to be on field duty with seventeen 

 and a half couples, especially as he had given me 

 a most kind invitation to see the hounds so far 

 back as Peterborough Show. However, to see a 

 six-days-a-week pack in its entirety is impossible 

 during the season, excepting on Sundays, and 

 I expect that would not do. I saw, though, 

 more than I expected to find, as the number of 

 hounds make a roll-call of nearly a third more 

 than Sir Richard Glyn kept. Then the kennel 

 list Jack Press handed to me included fifty-six 

 and a half couples, as now the one before me 

 can boast of eighty-three and a half couples, or, 

 I should say, the biggest lot of hounds in 

 Hngland. To accommodate such a number 

 Mr. Merthyr Guest has gone to considerable 

 expense in the enlargement of the kennels at 

 Charlton Horethorne, a new set on one side 

 being noticeable, with boiling houses and 



