. The best of the fun, 1891-1897. Horses; Hunting; Fox hunting. 414 THE BEST OP^ THE FUN this ain't one on 'em ! " Next time you view two gloveless individuals picking and preparing wet turnips in a north- east wind, think of this comparison, and tell me if this utterance was not tolerably well-timed. What weather may have been going on, meanwhile, upon the plains I can only judge from the fact that the gallop home to Rugby was for the most part across fields. I We are getting on capitally " tolerably soft and passably green ; and that, looking back, the view was bounded by the bleak


. The best of the fun, 1891-1897. Horses; Hunting; Fox hunting. 414 THE BEST OP^ THE FUN this ain't one on 'em ! " Next time you view two gloveless individuals picking and preparing wet turnips in a north- east wind, think of this comparison, and tell me if this utterance was not tolerably well-timed. What weather may have been going on, meanwhile, upon the plains I can only judge from the fact that the gallop home to Rugby was for the most part across fields. I We are getting on capitally " tolerably soft and passably green ; and that, looking back, the view was bounded by the bleak snow-mountains of Cold Ashby and Hemplow that we had left behind. Even here, it was not all grass or good going: , after a couple of miles' warm galloping, my companion turned in his saddle to close a gate that had let us into the high-road. " We are getting on capitally," quoth he, and the sentence was barely out of his mouth before the old horse flopped down on one side of the road, while the well-contented. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Elmhirst, Edward Pennell, 1845-1916; Giles, G. D. (Godfrey Douglas), 1857-1941. London : Chatto & Windus


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