THE LIFE OF A SPORTSMAN 



' Well done, viy old college^ exclaimed the parson, as he saw 

 tlio two Christchurch men amongst the eleven that were in at 

 the death, and no more appeared until the fox was broken up 

 by the pack, and then only the few who had passed the brook 

 by a bridge. 



' But what is become of Mr. Goodall ? ' was the anxious 

 inquiry of many. 



' I saw him safe on the bank,' replied a whipper-in ; ' and 

 I told a farmer to send some men to assist his horse, which 

 he promised he would immediately do.' And he was as good 

 as his word. Pineapple was pulled out by a team of horses, 

 not much the worse for his disaster ; and when his brother 

 collegians returned to Chipping Norton, where their hacks 

 awaited their arrival, they found the one comfortably dressed 

 in his stall, and the other in the act of finishing a good-sized 

 bowl of bishop, which he had swallowed after his luncheon, by 

 way of keeping out the cold, as has ever been the good practice, 

 as well of ancient as of modern times. 



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