202 THE BEST SEASON ON RECOED. 



liis head as he popped round — and shot him, too, into 

 the grave of briars. To officiate at the burial, even with 

 the apparently unseemly pantomime of a double somer- 

 sault, who more appropriate than the fearless minister — 

 whose good grey was as yet only half tired of cutting 

 out the work for weak sinners, and had still at least two 

 falls left in him ? The huntsman next jumped steadily 

 in, and even in the hurry of the moment was cool enough 

 to perceive the advantage of opening a gate out. The 

 Colonel,"-' however, had not risen at six that morning and 

 travelled all the way from London to ride a four-year- 

 old, for nothing ! So he flicked in and he flicked out, 

 jumped another rasper fifty yards on, and disappeared. 

 So they passed. And this is unembellished fact. 



* Col. Pole- Care w. 



