Pedestrianism

216 SKETCHES OF CAPT. BARCLAY'S and his anxietyto attendto his affairsat home, were the motives which induced htimo under­ go these laborious rides. When a house was fitted up at Turriff for his accommodationdu­ ring last season, he seldom returned homeaf­ ter the chace, but oftenleft Ury in the morn­ ing of theday in which he hunted. During lastwinter, while thepack was sta­ tioned at Beauchamp, he always left Uryin the morning, and returned to dinner, after hunting. The distanceis thirty-three miles, which, when doubled, and added to theaver­ age distance, to the cover, and length ofthe chace, wasabout one hundred miles. He left Ury generally at five, morning, and returned by five, afternoon. He performedthese jour- nies three times aweek for nine weeks, and considered them only moderate exercise.Al­ though frequentlydrenched withrain, he sel­ dom shifted his clothes, experiencing no in- conveniency fromwetness. To one thus in­ ured to fatigue, and to every change of wea­ ther, those circumstances whichwould incom­ mode or even injure most people, are trivial and