HUNTS WITH JOEROCKS 



Jorrocks, thinking he had done enough, then 

 took his horse from Charley Stobbs, and hoisting 

 himself on like a great crate of earthenware, 

 whistled his hounds away from the still stupefied 

 Pigg, who sat blinking and staring and shaking 

 his head, thinking there were two Jorrockses on 

 two Arterxerxes, two Bens, two Charley Stobbses, 

 and something like five-and-forty couple of hounds. 



The field remained behind praising Pigg and 

 abusing Jorrocks, and declaring they would with- 

 draw their subscriptions to the hounds if Pigg 

 'got the sack.' None of them would see Pigg 

 want; and Harry Capper, more vehement than 

 the rest, proposed an immediate subscription, a 

 suggestion that had the effect of dispersing the 

 field, who slunk off different ways as soon as ever 

 the allusion to the pocket was made. 



Jorrocks was desperately angry, for he had 

 had an expensive 'stop,' and came bent on mis- 

 chief. His confusion of mind made him mistake 

 the road home, and go by Kumfiddler Green in- 

 stead of Muswell Hill. He spurred, and cropped, 



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