"Why, where's the horse, Miss Kitty? By Jove, you're wet through! What
has happened?"
"Oh, the stupid utterly refused to take that brook, so I left him and
swam it. I couldn't miss the end of this beautiful thing!"
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[Illustration: IN A BLIND DITCH
_Sportsman_ (_to friend, whom he has mounted on a raw four-year-old for
"a quiet morning's outing"_). "Bravo, Jack! Well done! That's just what
the clumsy beggar wanted. Teach him to look where he's going!"]
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[Illustration: DRY HUMOUR
"Be'n't ye comin' over for 'im, mister?"]
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[Illustration: WIREPROOF
Sir Harry Hardman, mounted on "Behemoth," created rather a stir at the
meet. He said he didn't care a hang for the barbed or any other kind of
wire.]
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[Illustration: A SKETCH FROM THE MIDLANDS
"Hulloa, old chap! Not hurt, I hope?"
"Oh, no, no! Just got off to have a look at the view."]
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[Illustration: _Whip._ "Here, here! Hold hard! Come back!"
_Tommy_ (_home for the holidays_). "No jolly fear! You want to get first
start!"]
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"BUSINESS FIRST"
_Favourite Son of M.F.H._ (_to old huntsman_). "No, Smith, you won't see
much more of me for the rest of the season; if at all."
_Smith_ (_with some concern_). "Indeed, sir! 'Ow's that?"
_Son of M.F.H._ "Well, you see, I'm reading hard."
_Smith_ (_interrogatively_). "Readin' 'ard, sir?"
_Son of M.F.H._ "Yes, I'm reading Law."
_Smith._ "Well, I likes to read a bit o' them perlice reports myself,
sir, now an' then; but I don't allow 'em to hinterfere with a honest
day's 'untin'."
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