HUNTS WITH JOKROCKS 



pack. In course I needn't tell you that my 'ouse is not 

 large enough to require a kiver 'ack to canter from the 

 dinin'- to the drawin'-room, neither is the pack on a par 

 with many you have seen; but I can give you a good 

 blow-out, both in the way of wittles and drink, and shall be 

 'appy to " put you up," as they say in the cut-me-downs, 

 on as good a quad as I can, and show you sich sport as 

 the country will afford. Entre nous, as we say in France, 

 I want to be famous, and you know how to do it. In 

 course mum 's the word. 



* Yours to serve, 



'JOHN JORROCKS. 



'PS. Compts. to Julius Seizeher and all the ancient 

 Romans when you write. 



* Diana Lodge, Handley Cross Spa. 

 'To POMPONIUS EGO, ESQ., Calais.' 



V 



The following is Mr. Ego's answer : 



* DEAR MR. JORROCKS, 



'You remind me of Catullua! None but the old 

 Latian could have put the point as you do. D m all 

 dukes ! I 'm for mercantile life . s. d. I shall have 

 great satisfaction in inspecting your pack, on Thursday 

 next, which I have no doubt I shall find all I can desire. 

 Pick me out an easy-going, sure-footed, safe-leaping horse, 

 with a light mouth, and let him have a Whippy-saddle 



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