CHARLES CARRINGTON, ESQ. 113 



Occasionally he used to honour the Queen's with 

 his presence ; there he did it in grand style, sent 

 his horses down by rail, or drove down in his cart, 

 with his brown-holland overalls on, covering his 

 boots and spotless buckskins from the smallest 

 particle of dust or dirt ; the overalls he would have 

 taken off with a grand flourish just before the 

 hounds moved away, and mounted his horse with 

 the grandest possible air, telling Dick to ride to 

 points, and to be sure to be handy with his second 

 horse ; but, somehow or other, he never got his 

 second horse ; Dick always mistook the line of 

 country. 



Once or twice Cropper had been known to grace 

 the Epping Forest Hunt on an Easter Monday ; 

 but, somehow or other, Frank did not speak much 

 of this : why, I know not. 



" Dick," said his master one morning as he sat 

 at breakfast, " the day after to-morrow is the 

 last of the season — at least, the last day of any 

 hounds I can get to ; so I mean to have a turn 

 with the staghounds." 



" Do you, sir ? I wouldn't if I were you, sir ; 

 hate that calf-hunting. The Queen's ain't up to 

 my ideas of huntin' ; no staghounds are ; but 

 these hounds are duffers ; the master's a duffer, 

 the huntsman is a duffer, the whips are duffers, 

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