Highways and byways in Surrey . d a long,large window on the roof, especially let in to throw light on thehymn-books of the musicians in the gallery. How was such awindow cleaned ? Walking in this part of Surrey, which is chiefly pasture, isapt to be a little monotonous, without a good view. One ofthe prettiest views near Home is at Outwood, a little morethan a mile to the north-west, on the way back to Common is delightful. Two great windmills, blackand white, spread sails to the blowing air; below them, blackand white like the mills, pigs nose quietly over the short grass,and
Highways and byways in Surrey . d a long,large window on the roof, especially let in to throw light on thehymn-books of the musicians in the gallery. How was such awindow cleaned ? Walking in this part of Surrey, which is chiefly pasture, isapt to be a little monotonous, without a good view. One ofthe prettiest views near Home is at Outwood, a little morethan a mile to the north-west, on the way back to Common is delightful. Two great windmills, blackand white, spread sails to the blowing air; below them, blackand white like the mills, pigs nose quietly over the short grass,and geese strut cackling. To the north, beyond rich andtranquil fields, lie the grey-green wooded hills by Bletchingleyand Nutfield. Home is pretty near the centre of the country of theBurstow foxhounds, which stretches from Leigh, the other sideof Horley, to Edenbridge in Kent. Two good stories are toldof White, the Burstow huntsman. One is of an extraordinaryjump, singular not for its height or the width of ground 384 IN THE WIND. The Windmills at Outivood. XXXVII STORIES OF HUNTING 385 covered, but for its daring and adroitness. It was on one ofthe best days the Burstow ever had, when they killed a fox atCrawley after an hour and ten minutes run almost without acheck; and went on to find another fox near New ChapelGreen, which hounds ate in Kent at half-past five, nobodyknows quite where, so bad was the light. Nearly at the endof the second run \\hite found himself on the edge of anarrow, deep ghyll, with a stream at the bottom, crossed by anovergrown footpath which went doi to the stream and upagain by flights of stone steps opposite each other. Ridingdown two or three of the steps, he took a standing jump overthe stream and landed on the top steps the other another occasion his daring was of a different kind; hedid not know where he was riding. Hounds had crossed thegolf links on Earlswood Common, and White, close behindthem, was riding straight for one of the greens.
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