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outward, by continual hoi'se exercise, were riglit tough 

 serviceable members, and I have seen them bearing their 

 owner on through mud and mire, when straighter, longer, 

 and more fair propoitioned limbs were at an awful dis- 

 count. 



Depositing his hat then on the tloor, smoothing his hair, 

 and hitching up his smalls, and striving most laboriously 

 not to grin till he should have cause, stood Tim, like 

 ''Giafar awaiting Iii-s master's award!" 



''Tim!" said Harrv Archer — 



"Sur!" said Tim. 



"Tim ! Mr. Forester and I are talking of going up to- 

 morrow — what do you say to itf 



"Oop yonnerf queried Tim, in the most extraordinary 

 West-Riding Yorkshire, indicating the direction, by point- 

 ing his right thumb over his left shoulder — "Weel, Ay'se 

 nought to say aboot it — not Ay !" 



■'Soh! the cattle are all right, and the wagon in good 

 trim and the dogs in exercise, are they?" 



''Ay'se warrant um !" 



"Well, then, have all ready for a start at six tomorrow, 

 — put Mr. Forester's Manton alongside my Joe Spurling 

 in the top tray of the case, my single gun and my double 

 rifle in the lower, and see the magazine well filled — the 

 Diamond gun-powder, you know, from Mr. Brough's. 

 You'll put up what Mr. Forester will want, for a week, 

 you know — he does not know the country yet, Tim; — and, 

 hark you, what wine have I at Tom Draw's?" 



"No but a case of claret." 



"I thought so, then away with you ! down to the Baron's 

 and get two baskets of the Star, and stop at Fulton Mar- 

 ket, and get the best half hundred round of spiced beef 

 you can find — and then go up to Starke's at the Octagon, 

 and get a gallon of his old Ferintosh — that's all, Tim — off 

 with you ! — No ! stop a minute !" and he filled up a beaker 

 and handed it to the original, who, shutting both his eyes, 

 suffered the fragrant claret to roll down his gullet in the 

 most scientific fashion, and then, with what he called a 

 bow, turned right about, and exit. 



The sun rose bright on the next morning, and half an 

 hour before the appointed time, Tim entered my bed- 

 chamber, with a cup of mocha, and the intelligence that 

 ''Measter had been oop this hour and better, and did na 



