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She was certainly not a plate of fashion that is, not a French plate but she was graceful, and her clothes were really very good. Her unconsciousness of self was rather astounding in a country girl. "I think you'd like a fox-hunt. I will miss the big one this year Thanksgiving comes so late, and Christmas there's no time." "Christmas in the country must be very stupid." "Stupid!"
"He was beautifully stupid, but I could not help thinking of Henry Colman, the agriculturist, who, when in England, went on a fox-hunt. He said, 'Think of my poor wife's old husband leaping a fence!
Andy, and the others so little in advance!" Constantly blowing their bugles and shouting derisively after the fleeing patriots, my Lord Howe's men advanced. "'Tis a rare fox-hunt!" laughed one. "But the fox and his mates are out of sight, my lord," cried another. "For the moment. The ways divide a few rods beyond. Did the rebels pass this way?" asked an officer noticing Andy and Ruth.
I have told you, my friends, how I triumphed over the English at the fox-hunt when I pursued the animal so fiercely that even the herd of trained dogs was unable to keep up, and alone with my own hand I put him to the sword.
Forthwith the fox was released from the pole to which it was bound; and when the luckless creature had crept into a corner under one of the tables, the ten couples of hounds were sent in pursuit. It is a fact that English gentlemen in the sixteenth century thus amused themselves with a fox-hunt in a densely crowded dining-room.
Canter, canter, canter, went Jawleyford, with an arm akimbo, head well up, legs well down, toes well pointed, as if he were going to a race, where his work would end on arriving, instead of to a fox-hunt, where it would only begin.
"The major looks so like a stuffed man of straw," whispered Lady Dashfort to Lord Colambre, "and the captain so like the king of spades, putting forth one manly leg." Count O'Halloran now turned the conversation to field sports, and then the captain and major opened at once. "Pray now, sir," said the major, "you fox-hunt in this country, I suppose; and now do you manage the thing here as we do?
I seen 'im when he went, de sorrel four good lengths ahead o' ev'y udder hoss, jes' like he use' to be in a fox-hunt, an' de whole rigiment right arfter 'im. Yo' ain' nuvver hear thunder! Fust thing I knowed, de roan roll' head over heels an' flung me up 'g'inst de bank, like yo' chuck a nubbin over 'g'inst de foot o' de corn pile. An' dat's what kep' me from bein' kilt, I 'specks.
So it's quite fair for us to have the fox-hunt while he's gone. I was thinking we should have to put it off. The others agreed that it would not be unfair. 'We can have another one another time if he wants to, Oswald said. We know foxes are hunted in red coats and on horseback but we could not do this but H. O. had the old red football jersey that was Albert's uncle's when he was at Loretto.
In the same way, I have no doubt, the majority of foxes would object to choosing lots to determine the victim of a projected fox-hunt. They prefer to take their chances with the dogs. Extra-Legal Devices
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