Handley Cross; or, Mr. Jorrock's hunt (1892) (14595197177)

Identifier: handleycrossormr00surt (find matches)
Title: Handley Cross; or, Mr. Jorrock's hunt
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Surtees, Robert Smith, 1805-1864 Leech, John, 1817-1864, ill
Subjects: Fox hunting
Publisher: London, Bradbury, Agnew and Company
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill



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brilliant sport that we shall have the good fortune to record underthe auspices of their most sporting master, and his equally renownedand energetic Scotch huntsman—Charles Pigg. Mr. Jorrocks wrote the following letter to Bill Bowker :— Dear Bowker, Tours to hand, and note the contents. Weve had a luster !Three hours without a check and a kill! Should have been ^appy tohave sent old Nunauam Dormio * an account, tut it ivas a bye onthe sly, and no one being out, there are no names to bring in. Itssoapin chaps cleverly ivot makes a run read. Howsomever, I hopes tohave lots of clippers for him to record before long. Not that I caresabout fame, but ifs ivell to let the ounds have the credit of what theydo. You say Dormio will spice the articles up with learning and Latin.Latin be anged!—Greek too, if theres any grown now-a-days. Nowfor the run. Ifs an old sayin\ and a true un, that a bad beginning often makes * An eye, with nunquam dormio round, ia the crest and motto of BelT«Life.
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A BYE ON THE SLY. OR, MR. JORROCKS8 HUNT. 219 4 good mdin\ We lost Binjamin at startin; the little beggar wascaught in the splices of a po-chay, and carried a stage out of town—teach him to walk up street for futur. Hoivsomever, off we set withouthim, and a tremenclious run ivas the result. I send you the * Pry)and you can judge for yourself; the first part, about the find, must bttaken cum grano salis, with a lee tie Quicanne pepper, as PomponiusEgo would say. We meant to have a private rehearsal as it were, andgot a five-act comedy instead of a three. Indeed, it were Wee to havebeen a tragedy. Somehoiv or other I got to the Earl of Brambers, where there wasa great spread, and I had a good blow-out, and a solemnish drink.Either I walked in my sleep and fell into a pond or some one pitchedme into one, and I was as near droivned as a toucher. Hoivsomever,I got out, and werry attentive people were to me, givin me brandy,and whiskey, and negus, and all sorts of things. I slept pretty w