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us would care to have Dick Bragg, Find- 

 later, Lotherlngton, Boggledike, or Swig in 

 his service ? Frostyface is perhaps better ; 

 but in the Flat Hat Hunt it is after all the 

 Master and his double who seem to show 

 the sport. Even Jock Haggish, though he 

 can find and kill a fox, cannot ride to his 

 hounds. Altogether, Surtees seems to 

 appreciate professional huntsmen but little. 



Another of the points which must strike a 

 reader of these books is the author's con- 

 tempt for the titled aristocracy. In none of 

 them do we find a nobleman we should care 

 to meet. The Duke of Donkeyton is an ass, 

 the Duke of Tergiversation part fool and 

 part rogue, Lord Ladythorne a vicious fool, 

 the Marquis of Bray a fop, and Lord 

 Scamperdale a miserly scarecrow. Nor dc 

 the baronets fare better. Sir Moses Main- 



