CHAPTER IV 



THE MASTER COHCluded 



N dealing with this scribble- 

 ment, we have treated 

 ^ our "Master" more as 

 a Master than as one 

 of those " rare birds,"' a 

 Master and huntsman 

 combined. True it is, 

 that in our specifica- 

 tion of requirements we 

 lumped the offices, but 

 that was done to show 

 what a " monster of 

 perfection " a gentleman-huntsman ought to be. 

 Dis-Siamese the characters, and we have enough in 

 that of " Master " for all ordinary capacities. Doubt- 

 less, in our long life, we have seen many eminent 

 men in duplicate — Darlington, Ducie, Foljambe, 

 Lambton, Musters, Graham, Gifford, Sutton, Osbal- 

 deston, Elcho, Nicholl, Kintore, Newman, Templer^ 

 Tatchel, and, though last not least, those mighty 

 fox foes, who have shed renown on the some- 

 what common name of Smith ; but placing the 

 question on its own comprehensive stern, we are very 

 much of the opinion of Beckford, who says, that it 

 is an undertaking which, in a general way, had better 

 be " let alone." 



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