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True, he was fond of hunting, and went out at nights with the landlord to hunt the stag. There were hunting-boxes made of logs of wood, with steps that led up into them, placed in different positions in the woods near the inn. The children loved to climb up into them. A hunting-box made such a nice airy room, they said; but mother was glad when they were down again without broken limbs.
A foreglance has been given of the alteration which was brought about in those characteristics, at the date of the sixteenth century, by the Renaissance, at the same time that the arts were made to shine with fresh and vivid lustre. Francis I. was their zealous and lavish patron; he revelled in building and embellishing palaces, castles, and hunting-boxes, St.
Richard Devine was in Clarges Street. Not that the very modest mansion there situated was the only establishment of which Richard Devine was master. Mr. John Rex had expensive tastes. He neither shot nor hunted, so he had no capital invested in Scotch moors or Leicestershire hunting-boxes.
Such adventures, however, as these are rare, and you must have, indeed, a double dose of bad fortune to be lost in such a woful way, and spend, without meeting any mortal soul, thirty long hours in the woods: for though the tract of forest is very extensive, there are strewed, here and there, several merry villages, large farms, and hunting-boxes, snugly hidden, it is true, beneath the trees, but which an experienced huntsman very soon discovers when he stands in need of assistance or a night's lodging.
"But after the New Camp and the Hunting-Boxes and the House-Boat what?" Ralph asked a little drearily. "Plenty to do," Billy promised cheerily. "I've been working on a plan to lay out the entire island in camps and parks. Pete, I want to bring them over to you some night." "Come to-night," Pete said eagerly. "Why not bring them to the Clubhouse," Honey asked. "I'd like to see them, too.
After a summer spent among bright-eyed English ladies at a country-house in Hertfordshire, then studded with the hunting-boxes of the nobility, and a visit to London which brought him into quick friendship with More, ten or eleven years his junior, Erasmus persuaded his patron to take him for a while to Oxford. Mountjoy promised but could not perform.
"And as soon as we finish the New Camp," Honey said eagerly, "we must make another on the rocks at the north. That will be our summer place." "And as soon as we've finished that, let's build a house-boat for the lake," Billy suggested. "Then let's put up some hunting-boxes at the south," Ralph took it up. "There's a good year's work on the New Camp," Frank reminded them.
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