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'The tail! ah, the tail! replied his lordship, feeling behind, where it wasn't; I'll tell you how that was: you see we went away like blazes from Springwheat's gorse nice gorse it is, and nice woman he has for a wife but, however, that's neither here nor there; what I was going to tell you about was the run, and how I lost my tail.
His shapeless tops, made regardless of the refinements of 'right and left, dangled at his horse's sides like a couple of stable-buckets; and he carried his heavy iron hammer-headed whip over his shoulder like a flail. But we are drawing his portrait instead of saying why he hunted. Well, then, having married Mrs. Springwheat's sister, who was always boasting to Mrs.
There was Fyle, and Fossick, and Blossomnose, and Sparks, and Joyce, and Capon, and Dribble, and a few others, but neither Washball nor Puffington, nor any of the holiday birds. Precisely at ten, my lord, and his hounds, and his huntsman, and his whips, and his Jack, trotted round Farmer Springwheat's spacious back premises, and appeared in due form before the green rails in front.
'Well, but you've got a pair of new boots, at all events, observed his lordship, eyeing Springwheat's refractory calves bagging over the tops of them. ''Deed have I! replied Springwheat; 'and a pair of uncommon awkward tight customers they are, added he, trying to move his feet about in them.
'Deuced good idea deuced good idea, continued he, bringing the bottle and seating himself on Mrs. Springwheat's right, while his host helped him to a most plentiful plate of turkey and tongue. The table was now about full, as was the room; the guests just rolling in as they would to a public-house, and helping themselves to whatever they liked. Great was the noise of eating.
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