. Sketches in the hunting field. eta decent horse—as youll see on Tuesday, I awkward brute youve got there, Tom. Wheredid she come from r Crookton asks, as at length, witha snort, the mare bounds over the fence. This is your new one, sir. I got over to fetch heryesterday, Tom answers, touching his h^it. Hadnttime to bring her round to let you see her, sir, andknowd you would be out to-day. n 2 100 SKEJCIIES JX THE HUXTING FIELD. Im afraid we laughed; the idea of Crookton soangrily abusing his own horse from his own unexcep-tionable dealer was too good to be resisted. It is freezin
. Sketches in the hunting field. eta decent horse—as youll see on Tuesday, I awkward brute youve got there, Tom. Wheredid she come from r Crookton asks, as at length, witha snort, the mare bounds over the fence. This is your new one, sir. I got over to fetch heryesterday, Tom answers, touching his h^it. Hadnttime to bring her round to let you see her, sir, andknowd you would be out to-day. n 2 100 SKEJCIIES JX THE HUXTING FIELD. Im afraid we laughed; the idea of Crookton soangrily abusing his own horse from his own unexcep-tionable dealer was too good to be resisted. It is freezing hard now, and Crookton is beyond alldoubt girding bitterly at the abominable it will thaw, and then he will come out, and growlsavagely at the heavy ploughs, and the rides throughthe coverts knee-deep in mud. In fine, Crookton—agenerous, good-hearted fellow when it comes to thepoint—is a very pronounced type of that strange classof people who are never happy unless they have some-thing to be miserable XI. AN AFTER-DINNER SPORTSMAN. As a very general rule the less a man talks about hisown performances in the saddle the better for his ownreputation and the comfort of his friends. There are, of course, exceptions to every rule; as, forexample, Dick Christian, whose * lecture, so full ofpleasant and unconscious egotism—as from its style itneeds must have been—is an abiding joy to all whoknow the Midlands, either by experience or Druid did good service when he interviewed thegallant veteran, and obtained from him those storieswhich he loved to repeat for the edification of a sympa-thetic listener. The knowledge, too, that all the oldmans statements were strictly accurate lent a charm tohis narrative which all stories of sport certainly do notpossess ; as in the case of Herbert Fluffyer, who haslately settled amongst us, and who goes wonderfullystraight and well after dinner, or even at breakfast,especially after a glass of cura9oa and bra
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