_Shepherd._ "Zo there be, maister; but thou 'aven't got down to un yet!"] * * * * * [Illustration: BUGGLES WITH THE DEVON AND SOMERSET How he found a "Warrantable Deer."] * * * * * [Illustration: BUGGLES WITH THE DEVON AND SOMERSET _In_ Devonshire.] * * * * * FOOLS AND THEIR MONEY-- _Jones_ (_who has been having a fair bucketing for the last half-hour, as he passes friend, in his mad career_). "I'd give a fiver to get off this brute!" _Friend_ (_brutal_). "Don't chuck your money away, old chap! You'll be off for less than that!" * * * * * WITH THE QUEEN'S _Leading Sportsman._ "Hold ha--rd! Here's some more of that confounded barbed wire! Dashed if I don't think this country is mainly inhabited by retired fishing-tackle makers!" [_Makes for nearest gate, followed by sympathetic field._ * * * * * HIS OPINION _Jenkinson_ (_to M.F.H., who dislikes being bothered_). "What do you think of this horse?" (_No answer._) "Bred him myself, you know!" _M.F.H._ (_looking at horse out of corner of his eye_). "Umph! I thought you couldn't have been such a silly idiot as to have _bought_ him!" * * * * * [Illustration: THE VOICE OF SPRING _Bibulous Binks._ "Gad, it's freezing again!"] * * * * * [Illustration: A BLANK--BLANK--DAY] * * * * * [Illustration: WHOSE FAULT? "He _can_ jump, but he _won't!_"] * * * * * [Illustration: A VIEW HALLOO (_Hounds at fault_) _Whip_ (_bustling up to young Hodge, who has just begun to wave his cap and sing out lustily_). "Now then, where is he?" _Young H._ "Yonder, sir! Acomin' across yonder!" _Whip._ "Get out, why there ain't no fox there stoopid!" _Young H._ "No, sir; but there be our Billy on his jackass!"] * * * * * [Illustration: _Miss Nelly_ (_to her Slave, in the middle of the best thing of the Season_). "Oh, Mr. Rowel, do you mind going back? I dropped my whip at the last fence!"] * * * * * SEVERE _M.F.H._ (_to Youth from neighbouring Hunt, who has been making himself very objectionable_). "Now, look here, young man. I go cub-hunting for the purpose of educating _my own_ puppies. As you belong to another pack, I'll thank you to take yourself home!" * * * * * [Illustration: HUNTING MEMORANDUM Appearance of things in general to a gentleman who has just turned a complete somersault! _* &c., &c., represent sparks of divers beautiful colours._] * * * * * [Illustration: "LE SPORTMAN" "Hi!! Hi!! Stop ze chasse! I tomble--I faloff! _Stop ze fox!_"] * * * * * [Illustration: "CUBBING EVENTS CAST THEIR SHADOWS"