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missible enough at half-past ten in the morning, 

 and went on to turtle soup, which is not, and to 

 numerous other delicacies ; while salvoes of 

 champagne corks sounded oddly when one re- 

 flected on all the eloquence the host had lavished 

 on the support of Local Option. Then Wetherby 

 rose to propose the master's health ; and he said 

 that any eulogy on the sportsmanlike spirit 

 which Mr. Cobb, the worthy master (applause), 

 had displayed would be out of place on that 

 occasion, and at that table. Every true English- 

 man was a sportsman at heart, and he need 

 scarcely emphasize the fact that their host and 

 the Master of the South Downshire Harriers 

 was a true Englishman. (Applause.) Their 

 host was a representative man ; and he hoped 

 that the day would come ere long when the 

 claim to be representative might be more truly 

 his ; but on that he would not dwell. (Slight 

 applause.) Certain he was that their friend, 

 James Cobb, who had undertaken to hunt the 

 country, was the right man in the right place, 

 and he would ask them to unite with him in 

 drinking the health of a sportsman and a gentle- 

 man, who in honouring himself honoured them. 

 (Loud applause.) 



What Wetherby meant by the last phrase of 

 his speech he could not clearly explain to me as 



