Sentence:  What can a man know of a country or its people, who, merely passes through the former in a stage coach? ... Such were the arguments by which I induced myself to undertake a pedestrian trip to join my friend at his shooting-<WSD>box</WSD>, some hundred and fifty miles from Carlisle, where I had arrived from London; business compelling me to take that route. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A small country house.