Handley Cross; or, MrJorrock's hunt . for the sake of brevity,perhaps you would condescend ^ waive that point, and inform uswhatyou know about him. Know about him ! replied Mr. Mello, with a toss of his flowinghead and a curl of his lip; *I really know nothing about him,further than that he is a great nuisance. He came to HandleyCross the beginning of last winter, ever since when the place hasbeen in a state of tumult, and the religious portion of the communitysadly scandalised and terribly annoyed. For my own part I have OR, MR. JORROGKSS HUNT. 513 suffered all sorts of indignities at his han
Handley Cross; or, MrJorrock's hunt . for the sake of brevity,perhaps you would condescend ^ waive that point, and inform uswhatyou know about him. Know about him ! replied Mr. Mello, with a toss of his flowinghead and a curl of his lip; *I really know nothing about him,further than that he is a great nuisance. He came to HandleyCross the beginning of last winter, ever since when the place hasbeen in a state of tumult, and the religious portion of the communitysadly scandalised and terribly annoyed. For my own part I have OR, MR. JORROGKSS HUNT. 513 suffered all sorts of indignities at his hands. Besides his ravenoushounds, he keeps a pugnacious peacock that kills all the poultry inthe place. He took it into his head to stroll every day with his flock of dogsand servants into the open immediately below the front of my house,where he would stay for hours, surrounded by all the riff-raff and irre-ligious people of the place. Because I stated that my piety wasoutraged, he got a wild-beast show established there, and paid the. A PRESENT TO DR. MELLO. band five shillings for every hour they played after nine oclock atuight. The anonymous letters I received were extraordinarilynumerous, and full of the most insulting expressions ; and when Irefused to take them in, baskets and boxes began pouring in by therailway and coacnes, coniammg dead-cats, donkey haunches, brokenlishes, and other rubbish. I never saw John Jorrocks out hunting,but I understand his general conduct is of the most extraordinaryand extravagant description, and his proceedings subversive of mo-rality and true religion—only to be palliated on the score of down-right insanity. I consider him a mischievous maniac. \U HANDLEY CROSS ; fodre a warmint! growled Mr. Jorrocks, stuffing a ham sand-ifioh into his mouth. Go it, Ned ! continued he in the same strain, as Mr. Moonface,having extracted as much as he wanted out of the doctor, sat down,in order to let his learned friend endeavour to counteract what hehad
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