30 NIMROD'S NORTHERN TOUR. 



Mr. Marley. '' What, against the wind?" 



Nimrod. '' Yes." 



Mr. Marley. " Oh, of course, that's up wind.'" 



Nimrod. " Bless me, I beg your pardon; how stupid I am to ask 

 you such a question." 



Mr. Marley. " Oh, not at all: you are not used to these things, 1 

 find." 



Nimrod. '' Now what do you call riding along-side the dogs ?" 



Mr. Marley. " We call that cheeking them." 



Nimrod. " And what if you ride behind them V 



Mr. Marley. *'0h that's bad ; but we call it riding on the line." 



Now excuse the inadequacy of the metaphor, but I was about to say — 

 " why not call it ^^ rumping them?" when, afraid of driving the jest too 

 far, I changed the nature of our discourse, not however without the re- 

 flection, that if every undergraduate at our universities were to go 

 through his examination for his *' Little-go" as well as Mr; Marley had 

 gone through his, by me, one description of plucking would be at an end. 

 Another reflection also presented itself: — It is one of the greatest com- 

 pliments to fox-hunting, that it is the delight of every condition, and of 

 every age ; and there can be no reason w'hy the man who makes the coat, 

 should not be a sportsman as well as the man who wears it. Whether or 



