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breakfast was prepared within doors for all 

 who had the acquaintance of the hospitable 

 owner. 



Mr. Long. " Mr. Long, the master of the 

 hounds, was well mounted, and by his affabi- 

 lity and courtesy to all his field, must be a 

 popular man. He was extremely quiet through- 

 out the day, always with his hounds, and by 

 his manner proved that he thought the suaviter 

 in modo the best system of carrying on the 

 sport. The huntsman, Squires, rode a very 

 clever chesnut gelding, and I hear that he is 

 as good a man in the kennel as he is in the 

 field. The whipper-in, Tredwell, son of Mr. 

 Farquharson's huntsman, is a regular i chip of 

 the old block,' and looked determined to be in 

 his place, on a serviceable-looking roan mare. 

 " There were many well-mounted sporting- 

 looking men and farmers, whose names I was 

 not acquainted with, or I should have had 

 great pleasure in acknowledging the courtesy 

 they extended to me a stranger, mounted on 

 rather a rough-looking pony, and having just 

 returned from a cruise, equipped in a suit 

 more calculated for the deck of a fishing-smack 

 in the North Seas than the covert-side of the 

 Hambledon Hunt. 



" I ascertained from the huntsman that they 



