38 THE SPORTING WORLD. 



"When I admitted I should only derive mor- 

 tification in the place of enjoyment if I hunted 

 the one horse and pony I have supposed any 

 one to possess, it was because I should feel 

 myself in a state of most unmistakeable in- 

 feriority while so doing. But Cabby does what 

 he does do well, his pet does the same, so 

 there is no mortification in his case ; there 

 would be for the man who had only a cur that 

 took ten minutes to kill a rat, that the other 

 would only take one gripe at, a shake, and 

 then leave him as dead as a door-nail. I can 

 fancy I hear Cabby remark to the owner of the 

 cur, " A wery nice little Tyke that of yourn, 

 but rather slow; hope you've more of the breed 

 at home." I should not expect to hear any 

 illiberal or derisive remark on the one horse 

 from men I might meet in the hunting field. 

 But while I was pottering along on a forty 

 pound hack, "par excellence" for the time being 

 a hunter, if I saw some fortunate being sail 



