THE HAUGHTYSHIRE HUNT. 



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Par parentliese, we may here say that a friend of ours — he 

 is a long-suffering man, and phiys the cornet, and on such 

 occasions it is not only he that is long-suffering — was trying to 

 persuade us that hounds' cries were not really musical ; but 



THE SERIOUS MUSICIAN. 



with the greatest humilitv we must be allowed to differ. We 

 fancy ourselves a trifle on the subject of music — we are rather 

 an authority on it, in fact. We once played tunes on a post- 

 horn with such effect that the death-rate rose in that neigh- 

 bourhood by leaps and bounds, and the proprietor of the 



