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language and in mine that means ' stop ' ; and 

 hounds have ' broth ' not ' soup '." 



" zznd Noveinhev, 1871. 



" My Dear Jack,— 



" Many thanks for corrections to the ditty — 

 great authors differ in all sciences, as in history. I 

 think, but will not be sure, that The Diajy of a 

 Huntsman in its vocabulary gives * Yo-ge-ote,' ' Try 

 here again '. Apperley (' Nimrod ') makes Osbaldis- 

 ton, in the famous Quarterly Review run, cheer a 

 hound that hits off the line with, ' Yo do it. Pastime,' 

 as she feathers her stern down a hedgerow. But I 

 do not consider him so trustworthy as yourself, who 

 are second only to the original ' Nimrod,' inasmuch 

 as the whole of his country between the rivers must 

 have carried a worse scent than Harleston Heath 

 itself.^ 



" The ' soup ' I cannot do without, on account 

 of the rhyme ; and you must remember Jorrocks' 

 reply to the churchwardens when they indicted him 

 for a nuisance, and asked him why he stacked dead 

 horses : ' Soup, soup '. You see how well I have 

 got up my derivations. As soon as the wind blows 

 from the south, and the frost goes, I am due in 

 Dorsetshire. 



" Yours ever, 



" G. J. Whyte-Melville." 



^ A bad scenting covert in the Pytchley country. 



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