CHAPTER V. 



" You must have come across a good many characters 

 in your thne ? " 



"Ah, I believe I have, sir — some good and some 

 very bad ones, but I never found a man that was 

 fond o' fox-hunting but had some good about him. 

 Why, there were Mr. Grantley Berkeley, he were a 

 very odd man, and he hunted his own hounds most 

 days when he kept the Oakley, and I were with him 

 as kennel-huntsman. But thouo-h he hunted the 

 hounds himself, I were generally out with him. 

 Well, sir, a gentleman may do all very well for a 

 time, but 'twill beat him in the end. 'Tis a servant's 

 work to hunt hounds, as he has to be here, there, and 

 everyAvhere, while others be standing still or sitting 

 about. Well, sir, Mr. Berkeley were a very good sort 

 o' man, but he were a great dandy, and I don't like 

 a dandy, he be afear'd o' dirtjdng his boots, or spoiling 



