_Podson_ (_lately returned from abroad_). "Well, I hear you've been
having a capital season, Thruster."
_Thruster._ "Oh, rippin'! Why, I've had both collar-bones broken, left
wrist sprained, and haven't got a sound horse left in my string!"
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[Illustration: INEXPRESSIBLE
_Master Jack_ (_son of M.F.H., much upset by hard weather_). "Go skating
with you! Not if I know it. May be all very well for you women and those
curate chaps--but we hunting men, by George!!!"]
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