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true, some bits we would not like to have lost, 

 but they are almost buried in a heap of 

 irrelevant and uninteresting matter. Finally, 

 we leave Jorrocks beginning his second 

 season with his hounds ; and in Hillingdo7i 

 Hall we find him some years older, and no 

 longer a M.F.H. How many years we 

 are not told, but Stobbs and Belinda are 

 married and do not appear, and Pigg is 

 reduced to cattle-droving. Benjamin, how- 

 ever, is still a boy, but it would appear that 

 Surtees meant us to take Jorrocks as a good 

 deal older. The fact is, that Surtees took 

 no trouble to connect the two works. It is 

 much to be regretted that he did not, and 

 also weave the Jatcnts and Jollities into a 

 connected volume, forming as it were a 

 Jorrocks Trilogy, instead of writing some of 

 the later books, of which, for instance, Plain 



