HUNTS WITH JORROCKS 



their nerves, or nerves equal to their 'ands ; 

 books their seats and their names not their 

 seats by the coach, mind but their seats in the 

 saddle. To read his accounts of the runs you'd 

 fancy he was everywhere at once, both before, 

 behind, and above with the fox with the 'ounds 

 with the first, and with the last man in the 

 field so knowin'ly does he describe every twist, 

 every turn, every bend of the run. Oh, Pigg! 

 my excellent, my beautiful Pigg! now that the 

 fatal day 'proaches, and I sees the full brightness 

 o' my indiscretion starin' me i' the face, I begins 

 to repent havin' axed him to come. Wot can 

 fame do for Jorrocks ? I have as much tin as 

 I wants, and needn't care a copper for no man. 

 Would that I was well out o' the mess ! ' 



'Never fear,' replied Pigg, 'here be good like 

 h'unds, and yeer husses can gan; if we de but 

 find, the deuce is in it if we don't cook him up 

 a run.' 



'Oh, Pigg! my buck of a Pigg!' exclaimed 

 Mr. Jorrocks, 'those ifs are the deuce and all 



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