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market ; while their ignorant leader, or rather 

 driver, keeps floundering along the broken ridge 

 after them, under the paroxysm of a nervous 

 flutter, with breath scarcely able to sustain his 

 staggering limbs, and with difficulty panting out 

 an inarticulate and unauthoritative Take heed ! 

 Ba a sto! Po o nto! Take he e d, 

 Dido ! while in effect he urges the dogs onwards, 

 by continuing to press up to them for a chance 

 of shot. It is well, indeed, if he do not make 

 the attempt of measuring noses with them him- 

 self in advance; in which, whatever advantages 

 he may derive from nature in this respect, he 

 will assuredly be beaten by the odds of two or 

 more to one against him; until at length a 

 spring of the birds, thus run up out of all fair 

 compass, followed by a random, because breath- 

 less, bang at them, puts an end to this ridiculous 

 chase; leaving the gentleman at leisure to com- 

 pose the convulsive action of his lungs, in the 

 intervals of snarling reprobation breaking forth 

 against his almost blameless, but sadly mis- 

 managed, companions; who fail not to return 

 it with a moment's leer of equal dissatisfaction, 

 and then run riot upon the haunt, under the 

 further permission of ignorance, as being the 

 sum of all they are likely to get for their labours ; 

 while the other proceeds to furnish his double- 

 barrel (for this cool gentleman, forsooth, must 



