. Mr. Crop's harriers . [27]. THAW AND A MEET AT MUGGER HILL. Close to Cuckoo Farm, Shooters place. He is a generous host, and, to Cropsdisgust, gives a breakfast, while hounds and horses are waiting about in adrizzling rain. Champagne, foie-gras pies, and luxuries unheard of in old timesat a farm-house, are partaken of by the field. Spoiling sport and wasting time,says the master. Everybody is there—for the foxliounds are not advertised, andice on the ponds makes stag-hunting uncertain. Mrs. Hawthorn and her sister comein a smart pony cart; Toddleton on his great flat-footed cob; the Eev. Chu
. Mr. Crop's harriers . [27]. THAW AND A MEET AT MUGGER HILL. Close to Cuckoo Farm, Shooters place. He is a generous host, and, to Cropsdisgust, gives a breakfast, while hounds and horses are waiting about in adrizzling rain. Champagne, foie-gras pies, and luxuries unheard of in old timesat a farm-house, are partaken of by the field. Spoiling sport and wasting time,says the master. Everybody is there—for the foxliounds are not advertised, andice on the ponds makes stag-hunting uncertain. Mrs. Hawthorn and her sister comein a smart pony cart; Toddleton on his great flat-footed cob; the Eev. Chuff onhis mare, looking fat after the frost; Fred Hawthorn on an underbred mealy chesnut,not at all his sort; and the great sporting historian, Dragon. He alwayspatronises Shooters meet, dining and sleeping the night before *at Cuckoo Farm. His host,perhaps, agrees with Mr. Jorrocks, that the finest receipt for making men ride is shaking asportin hauthor afore them at startin ! The field certainly ride very boldly at first.
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