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Title: Cross country with horse and hound
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Peer, Frank Sherman
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Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ity for look-ing about and counting up the riders—seventy-two in all,including several ladies — or gossiping a bit on the way. Who is that driving past the riders with her horses in agallop ? Oh, that s Mrs. So-and-So. She knows the country,and from the direction the hounds are taking she guessesthe covert they are headed for. She always waits until thecrowd is well on the way, then rushes past. As a matter of fact, the lady asked the Master whatcovert he was going to draw first. It was a little comedywhich did not escape a few of the knowing ones at thestart. Well, really, replied the Master, in his politest man-ner, you had better ask the huntsman. Diverting her to the huntsmans track was a clever trickindeed, in which he was justified, because he knew thehuntsman could cope with Mrs. So-and-So and her bab-bling tongue. She is particularly fond of being the first towhisper a matter to her intimates, and he is aware that bythe time hounds reach the covert to be drawn, if she car-
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bfi O H Riding to Covert 319 ries her point, half a dozen carriages and as many road-riders will have surrounded the wood in the best possiblepositions, as they think, to see the find and start, and willbe sure to make the fox break covert before hounds reachthere or can station themselves in a position to head himback. Mrs. So-and-So, not being able herself to go to thehuntsman, asked an unsophisticated gentleman, eager enoughfor a commission from the fashionable lady. Oh, Mr. Unsophisticated, she called to him. Youare just the man I m looking for. Would you minddoing me a favour ? Most happy, I assure you, answered the delightedgentleman. Nothing could afford me — Just go out and say to the huntsman, Mrs. So-and-Sowishes to know as a special favour — as a special favour,mind — what covert is to be drawn first. There s a goodman. Never mind your hat. Delighted to obey your orders, Madame, said Mr. U.,with an impressive bow. Then, later, to a farmer on theedge of the circle, he

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