28 HUNTING. 



ed on their horses, not smoking their 

 cigars, as is now so much the fashion, 

 but waiting the effects of a cast that 

 the master was making a scientific ac- 

 quirement necessary to the proper un- 

 derstanding of this noble sport, in which 

 he excelled when suddenly the hounds, 

 hitting off the scent together, gave forth 

 that exhilirating music, which to be ap- 

 preciated must be heard in the field. 



Away went the horses, but not all their 

 riders, for our friend, the Jew, was 

 caught up like Absalom, in the tree 

 under which he was sitting, while 

 his horse went clean from under him ; 

 and presently after gesticulating and 

 howling, down dropped this scarlet bun- 

 dle of oddities, like an over-ripened apple, 

 demonstrating, as Newton's did, the cen- 

 tre of gravity as he came on a moist spot 

 of his mother-earth ; while his companions, 

 galloping away, had only time to look back 



