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in which those not immediately in advance of the 

 cavalcade join in tones of apparently the gravest 

 distress or most profound entreaty. 



Under this heading come the following: Muffs of the 

 deepest dye, who come out because they think it is 

 fashionable, or because their wives think so, and send 

 them. Nam by pamby young mashers, who think their 

 hunting dress becoming, and hope by joining in the 

 best of field sports to be looked upon as manly, if not 

 valiant, by fashion's marriageable daughters, and who, 

 if they stick occasionally at the fences when in the field, 

 stick at very little, and certainly not at facts, when 

 relating their adventures subsequently in the drawing- 

 room. The queen of such an one's affection will 

 probably address him somewhat after this manner — 

 "But hunting is so dreadfully dangerous, is it not, 

 Mr. Muffit?" And Mr. Muffit's carelessly-uttered 

 reply will perchance be built upon such lines as these: 

 " Of course, there is some danger, you know — gives 

 zest to the thing ; but the worst falls usually happen 

 to timid riders, and at small places. Men (the speaker 

 is probably eighteen next spring) who ride really 

 straight seldom come to much grief, I find ;" and the 

 fair listener's eyes will fill with a look of wondering 

 admiration as she pictures to herself dear Augustus 

 taking canals, rivers and locked gates in his stride, 

 as young men in the sporting pictures she has seen 



