324 FOX-HOUND, FOREST, AXD PRAIRIE. 



man was deaf to suggestion, while liis yells filled the frightened 

 air. In his paroxysms he not only rent his garments, but he 

 tore them off and trod them underfoot — an " extra superfine 

 double-stitched scarlet, too, with silk linings and five pounds 

 worth of extra qualities " all duly entered against him ! But 

 the smoke increased, the dense cloud rose — till he had fairly 

 trampled the devil out of it. Then, as he resumed three parts 

 of a cindered pink, it came to light that in a wanton moment 

 he had harboured a box of vesuvians in his breast pocket. The 

 fall had set them in full cry — Hinc ilia' lacrymce, and a parti- 

 coloured liverv, a cross as it were between the uniforms of 

 Hanwell and Portsdown. 



