rilE HUNTSMAN :>:] 



Gentlemen never look well in caps. A cap and a frock coat 

 should always go together. A gentleman in a cutaway coat 

 and a cap looks as absurd as a courtier would in a round hat. 



Leather breeches are stupid things for field servants. If the 

 breeches are good, they are heavy, and require a deal of 

 cleaning to keep them in order, and nothing can be more 

 unsightly than thin, dingy, parchment-looking, ill-kept ones. 

 Hunting servants have plenty to do without cleaning leather 

 breeches. Lord Yarborough's men, we believe, wear them ; 

 but it is not every Master that has his lordship's purse. His 

 lordship's men are the only ones we ever saw really well 

 turned out in leathers. The Warwickshire men used to wear 

 them in Boxall's time, but they would have looked better in 

 cords. The Atherstone men, in Mr. Applewaite's time, were 

 as well turned out as any men of the day, in neat cords, 

 the same colour and pattern. 

 Servants' dress shonlil V>^- ■■ 

 They have nianv a >' • 

 ing and an 

 know nothi; 



at the meet ai iiaii-paii uu 

 know whence they came, nor 

 them, much as people look ; • 

 expect to find the dc 

 in the orchestra, after which f 



matter of course; they are but speciaiors, lice to stu.y ur go 

 as the humour seizes them. The Huntsmen and whips, 

 however, must stay till the close of the entertainment, some- 

 times longer, unless, indeed, the Huntsman is content to go g 

 away, leaving lost hounds to " follow on," as a treasure of a 



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man we knew used to say. We spoke in the past ten?e, but v x 



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we knoiu him still, only he carries a horn with letters on a 

 mule, instead of pretending to hunt hounds, and ho seems m 



quite in his right place now. ^ 



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