Belvoir Hunt. 



CHAPTER II. 



Early Impressions continued. 



Belonging to a collateral branch of our 

 family was a hariini scarum, devil-may-care 

 sort of individual, in make and shape like a 

 pair of tongs — with long legs and short 

 bod}^ — who kept a pack of harriers, which he 

 used to hunt himself, and had for his whip 

 a man who was somewhat lame and crippled 

 b}^ one or two bad falls. The former was a hard 

 riding fellow, and hunted almost anything 

 he came across — fox, hare, deer, or what not 

 that might give him a run — and had the 

 impudence of a highwayman's horse. Amongst 

 a variety of escapades he would walk across 

 the floor of a fairly lofty room, and, spring- 

 ing from one leg, kick a hole in the ceiling 

 with the other, to the disgust of his enter- 

 tainer. He, however, is related to have shown 

 sport and had many followers, for he made 



