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Oh, sir, sir, it makes even me, with all my acknowledged science and experience, shudder to think of the ordeal one undergoes! 'Indeed, exclaimed Mr. Puffington, staring, and beginning to think it mightn't be quite so easy as it looked. 'I don't wish, sir, to dissuade you, sir, from the attempt, sir, continued Mr.
What between the field and college, young Puffington made the acquaintance of several very dashing young sparks Lord Firebrand, Lord Mudlark, Lord Deuceace, Sir Harry Blueun, and others, whom he always spoke of as 'Deuceace, 'Blueun, etc., in the easy style that marks the perfect gentleman. How proud the old people were of him!
'Here's my half-crown, said a third, handing one across the table to the fortunate winner. A general settlement took place, in the midst of which the 'watch and appurts' were handed to Mr. Sponge. 'We'll drink Mr. Pacey's health, said Mr. Puffington, helping himself to a bumper, and passing the lately replenished decanters.
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.
Mr. Puffington would fain have rebuked him for his impertinence, as indeed he often would fain have rebuked him; but Mr. Bragg had so overpowered him with science, and impressed him with the necessity of keeping him albeit Mr.
'Begin? replied he. 'Begin oh, let's see begin begin, "Dear Puff," to be sure. 'That'll do, said Jack, writing away. 'Say "Scamp," continued his lordship, dictating again, "is engaged, but I'll be with you at feeding-time." The letter concluded by advising Puffington to stick to the Beaufort Justice blood, for there was nothing in the world like it.
Young Puffington was then in the heyday of youth, about one-and-twenty or so, fair-haired, fresh-complexioned, slim, and standing, with the aid of high-heeled boots, little under six feet high. He had taken after his mother, not after old Tom Trodgers, as they called his papa.
Puffington, like a thorough sportsman, and one who never thrashes his hounds unnecessarily unlike some masters who never know when to leave off returned to Hanby House, where a distinguished party of noblemen and gentlemen partook of his splendid hospitality.
"'One of those scientific rests for which this eminent huntsman is so justly celebrated." Stalky knew the Puffington run by heart. "Hold on! Here's a vol voluntate quidnam all by itself," said McTurk. "I'll attend to her in a shake. Quidnam goes after Dolabella." "Good old Dolabella," murmured Stalky. "Don't break him. Vile prose Cicero wrote, didn't he? He ought to be grateful for "
'Seventeen brace, your grace, I mean to say my lord, that's to say sur, replied Bragg, with a strong emphasis on the sur, as if to say, 'I'm not used to you snobs of commoners. 'Seventeen brace! sneered Jack Spraggon to Sponge, adding, in a whisper, 'More like seven foxes. 'And how many run to ground? asked Puffington, alighting. 'Four brace, replied Bragg, stooping to cut off the brush.
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