A SCIENTIFIC SPORTSMAN. i8i 



eloquent than on most things. The sources of his in- 

 spiration were discovered, and when he explained how 

 the hounds ought to be hunted, under difficult circum- 

 stances, or gave opinions on other abstruse points, some 

 of the men who had grown tired of hearing Tewters talk 

 nonsense took to replying, "Yes, I know — Beckford 

 says so, but it does not apply here ;" " ' Scrutator ' 

 showed how it might be effective in certain cases of 

 which this is not one ;" " A man who clearly knew 

 nothing about it said so in the paper last week ;" and 

 make similar endeavours to convince him that his 

 opinions are not regarded as original inspirations, or 

 the result of acute personal experience. 



Tewters smiled with the accustomed air of superior 

 wisdom for some time, but at length appears to have 

 concluded that we were not worthy to receive the pearls 

 of his instruction — put more bluntly, though this way 

 of putting it would never have occurred to him, he felt 

 that we had discovered how great a humbug he was 

 — and, if he has not abandoned hunting altogether, he 

 is doubtless laying down the law for the officials and 

 followers of some other pack of hounds. 



