Prince Albert’s Harriers.

The South-Western Rail made a very good hack up to the Castle station.

That Prince Albert should never have taken to the Royal stag-hounds is not at all surprising. It requires to be to the manner born to endure the vast jostling, shouting, thrusting mob of gentlemen and horse dealers, legs and horse-breakers, that whirl away after the uncarted deer. Without the revival of the old Court etiquette, which forbade any one to ride before royalty, his Royal Highness might have been ridden down by some ambitious butcher or experimental cockney horseman on a runaway. If the etiquette of the time of George III had been revived, then only Leech could have done justice to the appearance of the field, following impatiently at a respectful distance not the stag, as they do now very often, or the hounds, as they ought to do but the Prince’s horse’s tail.

Fonte: Tamming Horses