HUNTS WITH JORROCKS 



Keen sportsman like him, one would think would 

 like to see the 'ounds.' 



The Journal proceeds in this strain for two 

 or three days more, Mr. Jorrocks becoming better 

 satisfied with his pack each time he had them 

 out. On the Friday he determined on having 

 a bye-day on the following one, for which purpose 

 he ordered his secretary to be in attendance, to 

 show him a likely find in a country where he 

 would not disturb many covers. Of course the 

 meet was to be kept strictly private, and of course, 

 like all ' strict secrets,' Fleeceall took care to tell 

 it to half the place. Still, as it was a ' peep-of-day 

 affair,' publicity did not make much matter, in- 

 asmuch as few of the Handley Cross gentry loved 

 hunting better than their beds. 



Fleeceall's situation was rather one of difficulty, 

 for he had never been out hunting but once, and 

 that once was in a gig, but knowing, as Dr. John- 

 son said, that there are * two sorts of information, 

 one that a man carries in his head, and the other 

 that he knows where to get ' ; nothing daunted by 



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