* * * * * DISINTERESTED KINDNESS _Sportsman_ (_just come to grief, to Kindhearted Stranger who has captured horse_). "I say, I'm awfully obliged to you! I can get on all right, so please don't wait!" _Kindhearted Stranger._ "Oh, I'd rather, thanks! I want you to flatten the next fence for me!" * * * * * ENCOURAGING _Nervous Man_ (_who hires his hunters_). "Know anything about this mare? Ringbone tells me she's as clever as a man!" _Friend._ "Clever as a man? Clever as a woman more like it! Seen her play some fine old games with two or three fellows, I can tell you!" * * * * * [Illustration: NUNC AUT NUNQUAM _Voice from bottom of ditch._ "Hold hard a minute! My money has slipped out of my pockets, and it's all down here somewhere!"] * * * * * [Illustration: A REFORMED CHARACTER _John._ "Goin' to give up 'untin'! Deary! deary! An' 'ow's that, missie?" _Little Miss Di._ "Well, you see, John, I find my cousin Charlie, who is going to be a curate, does not approve of hunting women, so I intend to be a district visitor instead!"] * * * * * [Illustration: MOTTOES; OR, "WHO'S WHO?" Mrs. Prettyphat. Family Motto--"_Medici jussu_."] * * * * * SOMETHING LIKE A CHARACTER _Huntsman_ (_on being introduced to future wife of M.F.H._). "Proud to make your acquaintance, miss! Known the Capting, miss, for nigh on ten seasons, and never saw 'im turn 'is 'ead from hanything as was jumpable! Knows a 'oss and knows a 'ound! Can ride one and 'unt t'other; and if that ain't as much as can be looked for in a 'usband, miss, why, I'll be jiggered!" * * * * * A LIBERAL ALLOWANCE _Huntsman_ (_who has just drawn Mr. Van Wyck's coverts blank_). "Rather short of cubs, I'm afraid, sir!" _Mr. Van Wyck_ (_who has very recently acquired his country seat_). "Most extraordinary! Can't understand it at all! Why, I told my keeper to order a dozen only last week!" * * * * * [Illustration: STORIES WITHOUT WORDS How "the second horseman" went home.] * * * * * [Illustration: Scene--_As above._ Time--_Mid-day._ Sport--_None up to now._ _Stout Party_ (_about to leave_). "Most extr'ordinary thing. Whenever I go home, they always have a rattling good run." _Candid Friend._ "Then, for goodness' sake, _go home at once!_"] * * * * * [Illustration: MOST EXTRAORDINARY _Dismounted Sportsman._ "Now, how the deuce did my hat manage to get up there?"] * * * * * STRAIGHT _Huntsman_ (_to Boy, who is riding his second horse_). "Hi, there! What the doose are yer doin' of with that second 'oss?"