110 A SHAKP BURST AND A HARD RUN. 



ton Mowbray ; and it was quite useless that lie af- 

 firmed and asseverated that it was his first day with 

 the hounds in England. So he gave up saying so. 



And Jardinier swears to this day that it is all non- 

 sense about Fairfax being a Virginian, because every 

 one knows the Fairfaxes are a Yorkshire family ; be- 

 sides, he knows that the people are all black in that 

 country ; and as to their fox-hunting at the Cape, or 

 in South Africa, he is not quite such a fool as not to 

 know that it's too hot to hunt there ; and besides, 

 there are no foxes there, only jackals ; for didn't poor 

 Power tell him so ; and hadn't he been there himself 

 — Power, not Jardinier — and so mustn't he know. 



