12 HUNTING BY MOONLIGHT 



in some fashionable watering place, such as Cheltenham 

 or Leamington. 



My experience in fox-hunting tells a very different 

 tale — an early breakfast — ^hard work throughout the day 

 — a late dinner, at the fashionable hour of eight or nine 

 o'clock in the evening ; scores of times, I have been 

 riding after my hounds when it was so dark thai I could 

 scarcely see my horse's head before me ; and when the 

 moon rose, we have been rattling about big woodlands, 

 from changing foxes, until ten or twelve at night. 



