RIDING RECOLLECTIONS 



society and occupations, the barometer at set fair, 

 and the atmosphere affording- every indication of 

 a six-weeks' frost ! 



Let us see in what the charm consists that 

 impels people to encounter bad food, bad wine, 

 bad lodgings, and above all, protracted boredom, 

 for a campaign in those historical hunting-grounds, 

 that have always seemed to constitute the rosiest 

 illusion of a sportsman's dream. 



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