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Utter is, '' Not bad gallop " or " Decent 

 thing ; '* and if you pass a fellow going 

 to cover who tells you he has got a 

 " fresh crock " — gave Hughie Overton 

 ;^6oo for it the night before last at 

 Spider's dinner, the most you must say 

 is, " Ah ! useful sort of beast." So wags 

 the world and the people in it, and 

 there's a ruling fashion even in a shake 

 of the hand or the way in which you 

 say ta-ta. 



Kirby Gate, the time-honoured meet 

 which heralds the Leicestershire hunting 

 season, is a sight for the gods : 500 

 horsemen mounted on such cattle as 

 you could not see excelled anywhere in 

 the wide world, their masters irreproach- 

 ably tailored and groomed ; about 100 of 

 the fairest of the fair, the majority in their 

 pale-blue silk Quorn Hunt collars, with 

 just a fetching peep of scarlet waistcoat. 



