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'Who the deuce can it be? asked he of himself, looking at his watch, and seeing it was a quarter-past four. 'It surely can't be my lord, or that Jack Spraggon coming after all? added he, drawing out a telescope and opening a lancet-window.
The distance couldn't have been less than" than what shall we say? asked Jack. 'Ten, twelve miles, as the crow flies, suggested Sponge. 'No, said Jack, that would be too much. Say ten'; adding, 'that will be four miles more than it was. 'Never mind, said Sponge, as he wrote it; 'folks like good measure with runs as well as ribbons. 'Now we must butter old Puff, observed Spraggon.
Spraggon had been obliged to put up with Lord Scamperdale's second best coat, his lordship having taken the best one himself; but it was passable enough by candle light, and the seediness of the blue cloth was relieved by a velvet collar and a new set of the Flat Hat Hunt buttons. Mr.
Altogether, Pacey has made such a mess that he cannot possibly win, and may lose almost any sum from a thousand pounds down to a hundred and eighty. Mr. Sponge has got well on with him, through the medium of Jack Spraggon.
It was very soon 'my hounds, and 'my horses, and 'my whips'; and he wrote to Jawleyford, and Puffington, and Guano, and Lumpleg, and Washball, and Spraggon, offering to make meets to suit their convenience, and even to mount them if required.
Miller's pig; but the latter could not be induced to claim anything of the worthy rector's for Mr. Spraggon to exercise his appraising talents upon. After an evening of much noise and confusion, the wine-heated party at last broke up the staying company retiring to their couches, and the outlying ones finding their ways home as best they could.
'Clap him on the back! shrieked Mrs. Springwheat, who considered that an infallible recipe for the ailments of children. 'Oh, Mr. Spraggon! exclaimed both, as they rushed to his assistance, 'what is the matter with my lord? 'Oh, that Mister something! gasped his lordship, bending forward in his chair, and venturing another glance through the window.
Notwithstanding the unfavourable aspect of affairs, Mr. Spraggon placed himself next Mr. Pacey, who sat a good way down the table, while Mr. Sponge occupied the post of honour by our host. In accordance with the usual tactics of these sort of gentlemen, Spraggon and Sponge essayed to be two if not exactly strangers, at all events gentlemen with very little acquaintance.
Bragg, and the whips, and the grooms, and the helpers, and the feeder the whole hunting establishment were up in arms at the burlesque, and vowing vengeance against the author of it. Mr. Spraggon, on seeing what a mess had been made of his labours, availed himself of the offer of a seat in Captain Guano's dog-cart, and was clear of the premises; while Mr.
'F-o-r-rard! screeched his lordship. So they went flying and 'forrarding' together; none of the field thanks to Jack Spraggon being able to overtake them. 'Y-o-o-nder he goes! at last cried Frosty, taking off his cap as he viewed the fox, some half-mile ahead, stealing away round the side of Newington Hill.
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