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'Talli-ho! talliho! talliho! screamed a host of voices, in every variety of intonation, from the half-frantic yell of a party seeing him, down to the shout of a mere partaker of the epidemic. Shouting is very contagious. The horsemen gathered up their reins, pressed down their hats, and threw away their cigar-ends.
"Well, at all events, you gets beefey, Brackenbury," said I; "you must be a couple of stone heavier than when we used to talliho the 'ounds together. I think I could lead you over the Weald now, at all ewents if the fences were out of the way," for I must confess that Brack was always a terrible chap at the jumps, and could go where few would follow.
What man dare, I dare; he who dares more, is no man, added Watchorn, giving his fat thigh a hearty slap. 'Well done, old Talliho! exclaimed Miss Glitters. 'We'll have you on the stage next. 'What will you wet your whistle with after your fine speech? asked Lady Scattercash. 'Take a tumbler of chumpine, if there is any, replied Watchorn, looking about for a long-necked bottle.
Presently he emerged from the yard followed by horse-keepers, coach-washers, porters, cads, waiters and others, amid loud cries of "Flare up, flare up, old cock! talliho fox-hunter!" with a bright mail-coach footboard lamp, strapped to his middle, which, lighting up the whole of his broad back now cased in scarlet, gave him the appearance of a gigantic red-and-gold insurance office badge, or an elderly cherub without wings.
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