It will take us longer if we motor.

There is a two- fifty-three from Charing Cross that we could catch comfortably." "If you are going to persuade me to hunt in the East Wessex country this season," said Yeovil, "you must find me a convenient hunting box somewhere down there." "I have found it," said Herlton, whipping out a stylograph, and hastily scribbling an "order to view" on a card; "central as possible for all the meets, grand stabling accommodation, excellent water-supply, big bathroom, game larder, cellarage, a bakehouse if you want to bake your own bread--" "Any land with it ?" "Not enough to be a nuisance.

An acre or two of paddock and about the same of garden.

You are fond of wild things; a wood comes down to the edge of the garden, a wood that harbours owls and buzzards and kestrels." "Have you got all those details in your book ?" asked Yeovil; "'wood adjoining property, O.B.K.'" "I keep those details in my head," said Herlton, "but they are quite reliable." "I shall insist on something substantial off the rent if there are no buzzards," said Yeovil; "now that you have mentioned them they seem an indispensable accessory to any decent hunting-box.

Look," he exclaimed, catching sight of a plump middle-aged individual, crossing the vestibule with an air of restrained importance, "there goes the delectable Pitherby.