_Jenkinson_ (_to M.F.H., who dislikes being bothered_). "What do you think
of this horse?" (_No answer._) "Bred him myself, you know!"
_M.F.H._ (_looking at horse out of corner of his eye_). "Umph! I thought
you couldn't have been such a silly idiot as to have _bought_ him!"
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[Illustration: THE VOICE OF SPRING
_Bibulous Binks._ "Gad, it's freezing again!"]
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[Illustration: A BLANK--BLANK--DAY]
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[Illustration: WHOSE FAULT?
"He _can_ jump, but he _won't!_"]
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[Illustration: A VIEW HALLOO
(_Hounds at fault_)
_Whip_ (_bustling up to young Hodge, who has just begun to wave his cap
and sing out lustily_). "Now then, where is he?"
_Young H._ "Yonder, sir! Acomin' across yonder!"
_Whip._ "Get out, why there ain't no fox there stoopid!"
_Young H._ "No, sir; but there be our Billy on his jackass!"]
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[Illustration: _Miss Nelly_ (_to her Slave, in the middle of the best
thing of the Season_). "Oh, Mr. Rowel, do you mind going back? I dropped
my whip at the last fence!"]
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