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Title: Sketches in the hunting field
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Watson, Alfred Edward Thomas, 1849-1922 Sturgess, John
Subjects: Horses Hunting -- Great Britain Fox hunting
Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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le, and very rarely fetch half themoney he gave for them. But scant justice would be done to Tourneymeadesget-up by simply saying that it is invariably irre-proachable. The baronial legs, from a critical point of view, mightbe called attenuated it one judged by a masculinestandard; but it is not sinew and muscle that the bootand breeches makers want, and these professors findscope for their highest efforts in Lord Tourneymeade.Hat, neck-cloth, the neat little bow which fits in justabove his well-cleaned tops, are all the quintessence ot form ; and however Plaits may rob his master, therecan be no question as to the manner in which he turnsout his horses. A boy from the Tourneymeade stables is as sure tounderstand his business as he is to understand thetricks of the trade and to rob his master; for Plaits hasthe communistic view of equality, that so long as he hasthe lions share without interference, those who can maypick up the bones. What Tourneymeade wants is a wife, and he was very
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A SWELLS 81 nearly being provided with that luxury last season ; butif the young lady were anxious to marry him she spoilther chance, as many of us do spoil our chances, bybeing too keen. It was for her sweet sake that he satout the opera aforesaid, and, being invited to Leicester-shire, a too ardent mother thought proper to carry onthe campaign by sending her daughter, an admirablerider, out hunting with the Fallowfield. The enchantress, anxious to display her skill andcourage to the best advantage, jumped one or twofences a length before Tourneymeade—too immediatelybefore him, in fact; for once, cutting in at the lastmoment, his horse swerved, came down, and affordedits noble owner an excellent view of four glitteringshoes passing within a few inches of his head. A deuced nice girl when shes sitting on a chair,is Tourneymeades present verdict upon the charmer; but when she gets on a horse she baulks you at yourfences, and jumps on you when you are down. And, on the whole, his equa

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