90 Hunting in the Golden Days. 



huntsman's attention to the beautiful points of his steed^ 

 asking at the same time if Jowles did not thoroughly 

 endorse his opinion. The huntsman, perhaps, in less busy 

 moments would have weighed his words more carefully, 

 but his answer was more appropriate than polite, " Get 

 out of the way with that old hair trunk on a stool," he 

 cried, " I aint got no time to talk about horses' points 

 now." 



However, Eric well knows him to be a good sports- 

 man, although he does profess to consider hare-hunting 

 a childish amusement. So as Mr. Goodbery does not 

 feel equal to a second run, Jowles is called upon to act 

 as whipper-in. Another hare is soon afoot, and after 

 a good run is killed in the open. The field then 

 considering that they have done enough for that day 

 return to the kennels, where they all avow that they have 

 had the most pleasant day's hare-hunting on record. 



After his exertions Mr. Goodbery returns to the house, 

 where he finds Miss Betty and Charley Yaverton appa- 

 rently deeply interested in one another's conversation. 

 It is wonderful what an amount of information persons in 

 a state of mind similar to that of our young friends, are 

 able to impart to one another. Mr. Goodbery, not 

 wishing to intrude his society upon them, for he well 

 knows that two is company and three is none on 

 these occasions, quietly steals off to the picture-gallery, 

 leaving the young lovers to continue their conversation. 

 Miss Janet is seated at work at her spinning-wheel in a 

 recess in this apartment, and is ruminating again upon 

 Mr. Goodbery's conduct of last night. 



She is in a more serious mood this morning than 

 usual, for she has been reading a book of sermons. She 

 is picturing to herself her future life at Foxley Grange 

 and the role she will have to play there when installed 



