JORROCKS ON ^UNTING 



and their brown top-boots look as if they have 

 never been wite. 



" The ' safe pilot ' is generally a man with a 



broad back, clad in bottle-green, with plain 

 metal buttons, white neckcloth, striped veskit, 

 drab kerseys, with ribbons danglin' over a 

 'hogany top ; or maybe in the scarlet coat of 

 the 'unt, with a hash-plant, to denote that he 

 is a gate-opener, and not a leaper : a man of 

 this sort will pilot a youngster all day without 

 ridin' over a fence. He knows every twist, 

 every turn, every gate, every gap, in the country, 

 and though sometimes appearin' to ride away 

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