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Show me the man who catches fish; ten to one his rod is well balanced and strong, his line heavy, though tapered, and his gut well selected and stained. The fly-book stamps the fisherman even more truly than the topboot stamps the fox-hunter. Nor does the accomplished expert with the dry fly disdain with fat of deer to grease his line, nor with paraffin to dress his fly and make it float.
No one but an erratic fox-hunter such as I am, a fox-hunter, I mean, whose lot it has been to wander about from one pack of hounds to another, can understand the melancholy feeling which a man has when he first intrudes himself, unknown by any one, among an entirely new set of sportsmen.
May domestic slavery be abolished throughout the world. May the fruits of England's soil never be denied to her children. May the lovers of the chase never want the comforts of life. May every fox-hunter be well mounted. May we always enjoy the pleasures of shootings and succeed with foul and fair. The staunch hound that never spends tongue but where he ought.
"Oh, werry well uncommon, I may say a thoroughbred, bang tail down to the hocks, by Phantom, out of Baron Munchausen's dam gave a hatful of money for him at Tatts'. five fives a deal of tin as times go. But he's a perfect 'oss, I assure you bright bay with four black legs, and never a white hair upon him. He's touched in the vind, but that's nothing I'm not a fox-hunter, you know, Mr.
"I have the honour to appear on behalf of Mr. Jorrocks," said Mr. Smirk, "a gentleman of the very highest consideration a fox-hunter a shooter and a grocer.
His next brother, William, a churchman as men go, seems to have loved him, although he was himself a rollicking fox-hunter; and, seeing that Hugh would die if left in this duress, engaged him to go to America.
But the "transition" rocks, underlying the "secondary" system that Smith studied, were still practically unexplored when, along in the thirties, they were taken in hand by Roderick Impey Murchison, the reformed fox-hunter and ex-captain, who had turned geologist to such notable advantage, and Adam Sedgwick, the brilliant Woodwardian professor at Cambridge.
To begin with the head: Mr. Murray was, by all accounts, a blustering, roystering, country squire: a devoted fox-hunter, a skilful horse-jockey and farrier, an active, practical farmer, and a hearty bon vivant.
He had inherited the fortune of a brother who died Governor of Madras. He had purchased an estate in Warwickshire, and had been welcomed to his domain in very tolerable verse by one of the neighbouring squires, the poetical fox-hunter, William Somerville.
Todhetley has repeated to us in later years the very words that passed. "By George, yes!" put in a bluff and hearty fox-hunter, the master of the hounds, bending forward to look at the lad, for he was in a line with him, and breaking short off an anecdote he was regaling the company with. "I forgot you were there, Master Hubert. Quite time you went to bed." "I daresay!" laughed the boy.
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