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place of your destination. There you may take up 

 your abode in one of the many palatial hotels, or if of 

 a frugal turn of mind you may select a " cottage by 

 the sea.-'^ Then, if you do not bring down your own 

 horses, lose no time in visiting the West Brighton 

 Hiding School, and selecting from the stock of Mr. 

 Dupont an animal that takes your particular fancy, 

 and if you are not very hard to please you will not be 

 long before you are fitted. Then having strolled along 

 the King^s Road, admiring the host of beautiful and 

 elegantly dressed ladies who daily exhibit their perfec- 

 tions in this fashionable promenade, you can drop in 

 at Eeichard^s, or take your fish at the Aquarium 

 Restaurant, afterwards passing an hour or two at the 

 well-managed theatre, and you will find that the time 

 has fleeted quickly and pleasantly away. Then in the 

 morning you should be in proper form for a gallop 

 with the Brookside Harriers, which hunt two days a 

 week (Mondays and Thursdays), and if you have the 

 same good fortune as I had, you will say you have had 

 an exceedingly good time. 



On the day of my visit the meet was at the 

 Newmarket Plantation, and the morning being bright 

 and clear, a pleasant hour's ride, passing through 

 Preston, leaving Stanmer Park, the beautiful seat of 

 the Earl of Chichester, to the left, I rode on to the 

 downs and cantered quietly along until I saw the 

 hounds rising the crest of one of the steep hills in the 

 direction of Lewes. The Brookside Harriers have for 

 nearly two centuries been in the possession of the 

 family of which Mr. Steyning Beard is now the 

 representative. These hounds, seventeen couples of 

 which formed the pack on this occasion, were in 



