Nathan Free, Natalie Bound

This family really likes outings. As the weather has warmed, my parents have taken my brother and I out for boat rides, picnics, church services, festivals, barn-raisings, tours, fishing, apple-picking, shopping trips, errands, excursions and snacks. The Duke tried to sneak us along for a hunt, but he was overruled. Apparently the duke's huntmaster believed that my father was likely to get so excited by a hunt that he was likely to put a child down in the woods, intending to come back in a few seconds to retrieve us.... and the duke shamefaced agreed that he was easily distracted by baying hounds and fleeing hares.