Exford is the headquarters of the stag-hunt: thither the hunters flock in August, and spend so much money during thir brief season that the innkeepers grow rich and fat, and for the rest of the year can afford to doze peacefully behind their bars.

Here are the kennels, and when I visited them they contained forty or fifty couples of stag-hounds.

These are gigantic foxhounds, selected for their great size from packs all over the country.

When out exercising these big vari-coloured dogs make a fine show.

It is curious to find that, although these individual variations are continually appearing--very large dogs born of dogs of medium size--others cannot be bred from them; the variety cannot be fixed.
The village is not picturesque.