io8 H ^fculiar ?3cing. 



in that excellent paper, The Chase, in terms that 

 make the ears of such keen sportsmen as missed 

 it literally tingle ; whilst in the same day's issue of 

 The Hunting Horn and Clayland Chronicle are by my 

 pen equally graphically descrii^ed a smart twenty 

 minutes with the Warwickshire, and a hunting run 

 of merit in a woodland country more south ; each 

 run referred to having taken place on the same 

 date ; and so do I hunt on day after day from glad 

 November till the season's close. 



Occasionally, it is true, I have obtained a mount 

 from a letter-out of hunters at a reduced rate, or 

 from a dealer desirous of a ''Notice" of his stud; 

 but such are quite exceptional events, for (must I 

 confess it !) I do not, except on paper, show off their 

 horses to very great advantage, and feel a great deal 

 more at home in my well-padded easy chair than their 

 sHppery pigskins. Hence it is surely hardly surprising 

 that I have not unexceptionally been correct in my 

 reports of sport ; but as probably only one in every 

 thousand of the readers of each Journal is in a position 

 to contradict me, and as I always take good care to 

 butter up the "big guns and influential duffers" of 

 each and every hunt, what care I ? 



Carpet slippers, security from risk, and Brixton for 

 me ! To one of my tastes and means it is alike more 

 enjoyable and profitable, and who, pray, is the wiser? 



