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with wliom I rode home afterwards, for he 

 laughed so immoderately at the recollection 

 of the scene that once or twice I seriously- 

 feared an apoplectic attack for him. Either 

 on the Bromley or Farningham line — I forget 

 which now — one deplorably wet day, when 

 horses sank up to their hocks, the whole field 

 fell, and hounds finished alone ! 



It has never fallen to my lot to ride with 

 the Household Brigade pack at Windsor, but 

 they have, I know, a very pretty country to 

 go over, and I have seen some of their lines, 

 which are, unquestionably, stiff ones. 



The Windsor drag will sometimes detrain 

 at Southall, on the Great Western Railway, 

 and ride a line by Hanw^ell Church to Green- 

 ford Green, where, l)y the way, Mr. Perkin's 

 kennels testify to the existence in a flourish- 

 ing condition of the Greenford Drag Hunt. 

 I have seen this pack laid on within a stone's 

 throw of Acton railway station, which is the 

 nearest point to London at which hounds are 

 ever seen nowadays. For a five-guinea sub- 

 scription a man may see a great deal of fun 



