^n ^Apology to J\Ir. Surtees 



Here it is : — 



' Dear Mr. Hego, — If your intercourse with Dukes and other 

 great guns o' the world, leaves any margin for the doin's of the 

 pop-guns o' the chase, I shall be werry 'appy if you will come here 

 and take a look at our most provincial pack. In course I needn't 

 tell you that my 'ouse is not large enough to require a kiver 'ack 

 to canter from the dinin' to the drawin'-room, neither is the pack 

 on a par with many you have seen ; but I can give you a good blow- 

 out, both in the way of wittles and drink, and shall be 'appy to " put 

 you up," as they say in the cut-me-downs, on as good a quad as I 

 can, and show you sich sport as the country will afford. Entre 

 nous, as we say in France, I want to be famous, and you know how 

 to do it. In course mum's the word. — Yours to serve, 



' John Jorrocks. 



' P.S. — Compts. to Julius Seizeher and all the ancient Romans 

 when you write. 



' To Pomponius Ego, Esq., Calais.' 



The acceptance to this invitation, the day's hunting, 

 and Pomponius Ego's puff that appeared in the Heavy 

 Triumvirate are all treated in Surtees 's most fortunate vein 

 of burlesque. The anxious consultation between Jorrocks 

 and Pigg as to the particular form of * fake ' to be employed 

 to make certain of a run and a kill ; their decision to run 

 a drag and shake a Fox out of a bag at the end of it ; the, 

 hideous uncertainty when it looked as if the man with the 

 bag had failed to play the game ; the ultimate triumph ; the 

 dinner at Diana Lodge ; the ill-bred disparagement of the 

 whole thing by Pomponius Ego in his article, and the 

 consequent chagrin of Mr. Jorrocks, are all well worth 

 reading of again. It is generally accepted that Mr. Apperley 



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