"Why, where's the horse, Miss Kitty? By Jove, you're wet through! What has happened?"
"Oh, the stupid utterly refused to take that brook, so I left him and swam it. I couldn't miss the end of this beautiful thing!"
IN A BLIND DITCH
Sportsman (to friend, whom he has mounted on a raw four-year-old for "a quiet morning's outing"). "Bravo, Jack! Well done! That's just what the clumsy beggar wanted. Teach him to look where he's going!"
DRY HUMOUR
"Be'n't ye comin' over for 'im, mister?"
WIREPROOF
Sir Harry Hardman, mounted on "Behemoth," created rather a stir at the meet. He said he didn't care a hang for the barbed or any other kind of wire.
A SKETCH FROM THE MIDLANDS
"Hulloa, old chap! Not hurt, I hope?"
"Oh, no, no! Just got off to have a look at the view."]
Whip. "Here, here! Hold hard! Come back!"
Tommy (home for the holidays). "No jolly fear! You want to get first start!"
"BUSINESS FIRST"
Favourite Son of M.F.H. (to old huntsman). "No, Smith, you won't see much more of me for the rest of the season; if at all."
Smith (with some concern). "Indeed, sir! 'Ow's that?"
Son of M.F.H. "Well, you see, I'm reading hard."
Smith (interrogatively). "Readin' 'ard, sir?"
Son of M.F.H. "Yes, I'm reading Law."
Smith. "Well, I likes to read a bit o' them perlice reports myself, sir, now an' then; but I don't allow 'em to hinterfere with a honest day's 'untin'."
