JORROCKS ON ^UNTING 



every cut and figure, a bunch of whips, dia- 

 chulum drawers, a cigar-case for his pocket, a 

 pocket siphonia, a sandwich-case for one side, 

 and a shoe-case for t'other, and keeps a hair- 

 bed afloat agin he comes 'ome with a broken 

 leg. (Laughter and applause.) 



" The custom of riding in scarlet is one it 

 becomes me to speak upon ; — I doesn't know 

 nothin' about the hantiquity of it, or whether 

 Julius Caesar, or any other of those antient 

 covies, sported it or not ; but, like most 

 subjects, a good deal may be said on both sides 

 of the question. There's no doubt it's a good 

 colour for wear, and that it tends to the 

 general promotion of fox-'unting, seeing that 

 two-thirds of the men wot come out and 

 subscribe wouldn't do so if they had to ride in 

 black. Still, I think ingenuous youth should 

 not be permitted to wear it at startin', for a 

 scarlet coat in the distance, though chock full 

 of hignorance, is quite as allurin' as when it 

 encloses the most experienced sportsman. 

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