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of country met with whilst following these 

 packs. With Lord Eothschild's, the glorious 

 Vale of Aylesbury lies stretched before you ; 

 all grass, practically ; fair fences, with not a 

 few brooks. You want a jumper here, and 

 a galloper as well ; but it is by no means a 

 very big country. Compared with parts of 

 Northamptonshire, or with the average tract 

 galloped over by, say, the Blackmoor Vale or 

 Cattestock, it is an easy one to ride over ; 

 and certainly I know none more pleasant. 

 The Queen's varies very much indeed. Some 

 parts are first-rate, and others — well, are not ! 

 The Mid-Kent get some beautiful pieces of 

 jumping and galloping ground in the vicinity 

 of Maidstone and Wateringbury, but on the 

 Farnino;ham side it is not at all o-ood. In the 

 former part plenty of grass and flying fences ; 

 in the latter, flint stones, cold clay, and sticky 

 fallow ; while the immense woodlands make 

 thino^s even worse for the West Kent Fox- 

 hounds than they are for the more artificial 

 sport of stag-hunting. With the Crawley and 

 Horsham Fox, and the Warnhani Stag, a most 



