CHARLES CARRINGTON, ESQ. 99 



them hunts as have three packs to keep 'em agoing. 

 Give me two days a week, and such a lot of dogs as 

 these. I dessay the Markis will make a huntsman 

 in time. Frank Gillard ain't a bad man, and Captain 

 Anstruther is pretty tidy ; but there's too much 

 hollerin', too much horn, too much lifting and flash- 

 ing over the line. They mobs their foxes to death ; 

 I kills mine." 



Slowman was magnificent at these times, and felt 

 more than gratified when compliments were showered 

 on him on all sides. 



" Eight you are, Slowman." " You know how to 

 do the trick, old fellow." " Best huntsman in 

 Europe." " There's half-a-sovereign to drink my 

 health." 



Then Slowman would collect his hounds, nod to 

 the whips, and return home a proud and happy 

 man. 



The Sternum hounds hunted a week later than 

 their neighbours, and at the two meets that took 

 place during that period they generally had large 

 fields, and always on the last day of the season, 

 because Messrs. Head and Over gave a grand 

 breakfast. 



On the occasion I am about to speak of, the last 

 day of the season, a breakfast w T as to be given of 

 more than usual magnificence. The hounds had had 



