. Sketches in the hunting field. erly has got his second horse, a mean and unfairadvantage, for which, at the moment, we cordially hatehim; and had he been turned over without doing him-self much damage about this period of the run, I fearsome of us would not have lamented the downfall of asgood a fellow as ever sat in saddle ; for, much as youmay like a man, you like him less than usual when heis cutting you down, and bellows to mend is thegeneral situation. But suddenly a ringing holloa proclaims that theyhave seen him, and in the next field the stout fox isrolled over. One lady, two men, th
. Sketches in the hunting field. erly has got his second horse, a mean and unfairadvantage, for which, at the moment, we cordially hatehim; and had he been turned over without doing him-self much damage about this period of the run, I fearsome of us would not have lamented the downfall of asgood a fellow as ever sat in saddle ; for, much as youmay like a man, you like him less than usual when heis cutting you down, and bellows to mend is thegeneral situation. But suddenly a ringing holloa proclaims that theyhave seen him, and in the next field the stout fox isrolled over. One lady, two men, the master, andhuntsman alone are up, and from the heaving flanksof the horse which has so gallantly carried the latter,it is clear he could not have held on much longer. The SEASONABLE WEATHERS 17s Whip just stumbles into the field at the critical moment,the effort of scrambling through the last fence finishingoff his horse; and a few others struggle up in turn toreceive the credit of having gone well through a fastforty XVIII. A SCIENTIFIC SPORTSMAN. The air of sublime superiority with which Tewters wasaccustomed to make a donkey of himself on frequentoccasions amply justifies his inclusion in these sketches ;for though it is to be hoped that very few men are quiteso silly as he was, and probably is, if one had the misfor-tune to know where to find him at the present moment,there are a great many young gentlemen who believethat they know all about it, when, as a matter of fact,their belief is in a precisely inverse ratio to the truth. There was icrede Tewters) nothing that he could notdo : and he did nothing. He came to Fallowfield tostay with an aged female relative, and attracted theattention of the residents by strutting about the townwith an air of tolerant but slightly contemptuous criti-cism, as he gazed about him ; and when calling oneafternoon on Downing, we found our then unknownfriend in the billiard-room, dilating learnedly on anglesof incidence and reflect
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