Handley Cross; or, MrJorrock's hunt . pped his expenses,and money like snow rolls up amazingly fast. A natural born sportsman, his lot being cast behind a counterinstead of in the country, is one of those frolics of fortune that thereis no accounting for. To remedy the error of the blind goddess,Mr. Jorrocks had taken to hunting as soon as he could keep a horse,and though his exploits were long confined to the suburban countyof Surrey, he should rather be credited for keenness in followingthe sport in so unpropitious a region, than debited as a Cockneyand laughed at for his pains. But here the
Handley Cross; or, MrJorrock's hunt . pped his expenses,and money like snow rolls up amazingly fast. A natural born sportsman, his lot being cast behind a counterinstead of in the country, is one of those frolics of fortune that thereis no accounting for. To remedy the error of the blind goddess,Mr. Jorrocks had taken to hunting as soon as he could keep a horse,and though his exploits were long confined to the suburban countyof Surrey, he should rather be credited for keenness in followingthe sport in so unpropitious a region, than debited as a Cockneyand laughed at for his pains. But here the old adage of whereignorance is bliss, &c. came to his aid, for before he had seen anybetter country than Surrey, he was impressed with the convictionthat it was the werry best, and their hounds the finest inEngland. Doesnt the best of everything come to London? he would ask,and doesnt it follow as a nattaral consequence, that the best untingis to be had from it ? Moreover, Mr. Jorrocks looked upon Surrey as the peculiar province.
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