However, I have rectified that in a manner by knocking all the fast 'uns and slow 'uns on the head; and I shall require at least twenty couple before I can take the field.

In your official report of what your old file puts back, you'll have the kindness to cobble us up good long pedigrees, and carry half of them at least back to the Beaufort Justice.

My man has got a crochet into his head about that hound, and I'm dimmed if he doesn't think half the hounds in England are descended from the Beaufort Justice.

These hounds are at present called the Mangeysternes, a very proper title, I should say, from all I've seen and heard.

That, however, must be changed; and we must have a button struck, instead of the plain pewter plates the men have been in the habit of hunting in.
'As to horses, I'm sure I don't know what we are to do in that line.