4 Tallyho, 



wliich, however, is not obvious to a casual observer, 

 more especially when lie hears this sportsman, of such 

 lengthened experience, give his opinion that the best 

 deer that was ever uncarted could not live before the 

 present pack for more than sixty minutes across the 

 best parts of the Yale. 



The meet on Thursday last was at the Windmill at 

 Tring. An hour's ride from Euston brings you to 

 the station, and a few minutes behind a pair of 

 steppers, of more than average excellence, suflSce to 

 land the visitor at Tring Park, the hospitable hunting 

 quarters of Sir Nathaniel Eothschild, as pleasant a spot 

 as eye could desire, with its " fading many-coloured 

 woods '^ which make '^ the pale descending year yet 

 pleasant still/' 



Tring Park was one of the gifts of that ever free 

 and altogether merrie monarch Charles II. to his 

 some time mistress, fair Nell Gwyn, whose portrait 

 still adorns the walls of the mansion. If the appoint- 

 ments in this place of Poyal retirement were equal in 

 comfort and elegance to those of the present possessor, 

 then the merrie monarch must have had an exceed- 

 ingly good time of it when he retired to its peaceful 

 shades from '^ that fierce light that beats upon a 

 throne,' ' and wandered through the lovely glades with 

 the fair Nell Gwyn. 



A few minutes' ride through the quaint old town, and 

 the windmill is reached, to find a large "Field" assem- 

 bled, with many lookers-on, watching eagerly for the 

 uncarting of the deer. Cox, mounted on The Rascal 

 by Adventurer — who, having misbehaved himself on 

 the turf, has been relegated to the chase — looks fit to 

 go for a man's life, and 20 couples of unusually level 



