"the merey haeeiees." 45 



I do not suppose tliat at the moment Cobb 

 thought of all the high-sounding things that had 

 been said about him at breakfast a few hours 

 before, or that he contrasted the different ways 

 people had of looking at things. In the morning 

 he had been eulogized as a gentleman and a 

 sportsman ; the reporters of the local papers had 

 been hard at it to get in all the adjectives, and a 

 leading article with more or less appropriate 

 references to the Quorn, the Pytchley, Melton 

 Mowbray, and the Duke of Wellington in the 

 Peninsular was inevitable ; yet early in the after- 

 noon he was being soundly abused before the 

 whole field, simply, if you came to look at it, 

 because a blundering hare wouldn't run straight. 

 And the angry lady's husband had a vote which 

 counted as much as anybody else's. 



The pack meantime had divided, and having 

 had enough of it I went home, leaving Cobb to 

 make his peace as best he could. 



I believe that since these occurrences he has 

 sold his harriers, and declares that if he can't 

 get into the House on his own legs, he won't try 

 to ride there on horseback. 



