HUNTS WITH JORROCKS 



and stumble across the common, with the water 

 churning in his great boots, in the direction of the 

 distant lights. 



After a good hour's roll about the open 

 Downs, amid a most pelting, pitiless storm, our 

 much-respected master at length neared the 

 longed-for lights, which he had kept steadily in 

 view, and found they proceeded from lamps at 

 lodges on either side of handsome gates, betoken- 

 ing the entrance to a large demesne. Mounting 

 his horse, he rode quickly through the gates, and 

 trusting to the sound of Arterxerxes' hoofs for 

 keeping the road, he jogged on in search of the 

 mansion. Tall stately pines, rising like towers to 

 heaven, with sombre yews in massive clumps, now 

 made darkness visible, and presently a sudden 

 turn of the road brought a large screen full of 

 lights to view, some stationary, others gliding 

 about, which acted like sunbeams on our master's 

 mind ; more grateful still was the shelter afforded 

 by the lofty portals of the entrance, under which, 

 as if by instinct, Arterxerxes bore his master, and 



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