THE CHACE. 
gorse. " Have at him there" holloas the Squire* the 
gorse still more alive, and hounds leaping over each 
other's backs. " Have at him there again, my good 
hounds ; a fox for a hundred !" reiterates the Squire ; 
putting his finger in his ear, and uttering a scream 
which, not being set to music, we cannot give here. 
Jack Stevens (the first whipper-in) looks at his watch. 
At this moment " John White," " Val. Maher," " Frank 
Holyoake" (who will pardon us for giving them their 
noms-de-chasse^\ and two or three more of the fast ones, 
are seen creeping gently on towards a point at which 
they think it probable he may break. " Hold hard, 
there," says a sportsman ; but he might as well speak 
to the winds. " Stand still, gentlemen ; pray stand 
still," exclaims the huntsman ; he might as well say so 
to the sun. During the time we have been speaking of, 
all the field have been awake gloves put on cigars 
thrown away the bridle-reins gathered well up into 
the hand, and hats pushed down upon the brow. 
At this interesting period, a Snob J, just arrived from 
* When Mr. Osbaldeston had the Quorn hounds, three of the four 
packs which hunted in the same county with his own, were the property 
of noblemen ; so, for the sake of distinction, his friends conferred on him 
the familiar title of " the Squire." 
+ John White, Esq., of Park Hall, Derbyshire; Valentine Maher, 
Esq., a member of the Old Club; and Francis Lyttleton Holyoake, Esq., 
of Studley Castle, Worcestershire, but now Sir Francis Holyoake Good- 
ricke, having succeeded to the title and estates of the late Sir Harry 
Goodricke. 
t We know nothing of the derivation of the word " Snob," unless it 
be in centra-distinction to Nob; it is certainly not a classical one, but 
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