THE FIELD. CHAPTER I. THE CHASE: ITS PLEASURES.THE FOX-HUNTER AND THE TINCTIVE FEATURES. HOW TO FORM A SPORTSMAN. - DIFFERENCE OF PACKS.-ILLUSTRATIVE ANECDOTES. THE Field! Not, reader, the far-famed one of Waterloo, nor the more remote in history but equally memorable one of Bosworth. My humble pen shall not carry my ideas to either plain, though my horse has carried me over both. It was with the enthusiasm of a mere boy I was first carried across either, but with enthusiasm of a different sort, and, sooth to say, the one by far the most agreeable. For, hail, thou field of Bosworth! if Mars has claimed thee as the temporary arena of his belligerent sons, fair Diana has "smoothed the rugged front of war by making thee a part and parcel of her sylvan territory. Unheroic may be the choice, but in honesty I must avow I hold it pleasanter to put B |