IX. 



AN M.F.H.— ANOTHER VARIETY. 



In former pages the Marquis of Wiltshire has been 

 indistinctly sketched; and happy is the country ruled 

 over by such an M.F.H. But, as most people are 

 aware, there are other varieties of masters ; and in the 

 Fallowfield country they have some knowledge of the 

 less satisfactory sorts, the recollection of whom is very 

 much more amusing than were the actual experiences. 



It will be generally admitted that if all of us only 

 spent what we could afford, money would not invariably 

 be invested as it is at present. 



Charley Hieflight's stable of fourteen hunters would 

 be curtailed to very much more modest proportions, and 

 Willy Recknott's hunting would be confined to an occa- 

 sional mount on a friend's horse, and some three or four 

 turns during the season on a two-guinea hack-hunter 

 hired from the stable in the county town, whereas he 

 never has less than a couple of very likely animals in 

 whatever place he may be quartered ; and perhaps he 

 will pay all debts in connection with them some da)'-, if 

 he can. But while some men spend more than they can 

 afford, others spend less, and one of the latter kind was 



