THE SPORTING WORLD. 57 



We will suppose a check. The sportsman 

 looks on such event as to be expected at some 

 time or other, patiently waits while hounds make 

 their cast, and if that fails, while the huntsman 

 makes his; then perhaps suggests a cast in 

 another direction, which may succeed or not. If 

 it does, "That's it," proclaims the lucky hit; if 

 all fails, " I am afraid he has beat us," is the 

 temperate remark on an unavoidable circumstance. 



The other on such interruption to the only 

 part of hunting he enjoys, namely the galloping 



and jumping, most likely d s the foxhounds, 



and not unlikely the huntsman. If any but a 



crack country, d s that also, as a pottering 



place only fit for a pack of harriers. "Cursed 

 provoking," (he would say) "just as hounds 

 were getting to their work and horses to their 

 stride." This perhaps after a burst that had 

 tested the merits of the best nags out, but he 

 has got his second horse, and with fresh tools 

 to work with, hopes to see another ten minutes 



