A Day with the Baron. 5 



and symmetrical hounds give promise of sport if tlie 

 deer but run well. The deer, having been uncarted, 

 declined to face the sharp north-east wind, and, 

 leaving Tring on his right, takes a line of country in 

 the direction of Amersham, crossing the Berkhamp- 

 stead Eoad, and on to the large woods near Chesham, 

 where, after ringing round the covers for a while, he 

 is finally taken in a farmyard, after a fair hunting run 

 of an hour and a quarter. The country rides well, 

 but the fences are blind, and several horses are to be 

 seen at an early stage running riderless after the 

 hounds. 



The scent was bad throughout, though it improved 

 as the day advanced. Sir Nathaniel, on a promising 

 young Irish horse, and Messrs. Flower, Foy, Williams, 

 Cazenove, and many other well-mounted sportsmen 

 are all there, or thereabouts ; but as the Yale is not 

 hunted until the end of the month in consequence of 

 the blindness of the fences, there were several of the 

 first flight absent, who will put in an appearance as 

 the season advances. 



Returning to Tring Park, there is time for a cursory 

 view of the house and grounds. Many gems in the 

 way of portrait-painting — prominent amongst them 

 Millais's picture of the son and heir and a full-length 

 portrait of Queen Elizabeth — adorn the walls. But 

 all the attractions are not inside the house. The 

 paddocks in which emus and ostriches were to be seen, 

 Shetland bullocks, flocks of turkeys, geese, which 

 might very well be swans if size is the qualification, 

 hares, pheasants, a kangaroo and infant, several newly 

 arrived chamois, gold, silver, and other choice and 

 rare pheasants ; an aviary, amongst the inhabitants of 



