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with no less an artist than John Leech. 

 Indeed, it may be said that in some cases the 

 letterpress was written up to the illustrations. 

 In one edition of Handley Cross, not illus- 

 trated, and which I believe to be the original 

 one, there are many variations from the well- 

 known text. For instance, the horse which 

 declines to be led over on Mr. Jorrocks' first 

 day is Xerxes, and here it is obvious the later 

 text was altered to suit Leech's famous 

 picture (perhaps the most famous of all), 

 '' Come hup, you hugly brute." Again, only 

 a few lines of 'Miary" are devoted to the 

 "■ Cat and Custard Pot Day," but it is not clear 

 whether we really have to thank Leech's 

 drawings for the existence of what is probably 

 the very best account of an average run with 

 foxhounds that was ever written. Certain 



it is that the five books to which Leech 

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