POMPONIUS EGO 



on I can't ride in any other. I like a bedroom with a 

 southern aspect the feathers above the mattress, if you 

 please ; wax- candles and Eau de Cologne, will pitch the 

 tune for the rest. Compliments to Mrs. Jorrocks, from, 

 dear Jorrocks, 



' Yours very truly, 



'POMPONIUS EGO. 



' PS. What would you like to be done in ? The 

 Q. -ft., 1 the H. T., Fraser, Blackwood, New Monthly, 

 Encyclopedia, Life, Field, Era, or what ? 



' To JOHN JORROCKS, ESQ., 

 * Master of Fox-Hounds, 



* Diana Lodge, Handley Cross Spa.' 



This point being arranged, great preparations 

 were made for the important event. Hounds 

 may go on for centuries without being known 

 beyond the limits of their country, but the one 

 day that brings the Inspector-General lives for 

 ever in the page of history. Where, then, is 

 the master of hounds, where the huntsman, where 

 the whip, where the member of a hunt, whose 



1 ' Q. R.' stands for Quarterly Review ; ' H. T.,' for Heavy 

 Triumvirate, which carries the lead, known in the trade as 

 the Old and New Sporting Magazines, and the Sporting 

 Review. 



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