[Illustration: OBEYING ORDERS "It's all very well for master to say 'Keep close to Miss Vera, Miles'--but I want to know 'oo's going to take Miles to the 'orsepital?"] * * * * * [Illustration: GALLANTRY REWARDED _Lady_ (_having had a fall at a brook, and come out the wrong side,--to stranger who has caught her horse_). "Oh, I'm _so_ much obliged to you! Now, do you mind just bringing him over?"] * * * * * [Illustration: JUST OFF "Ride her on the snaffle, Tom! Don't ride her on the curb!" "Hang your curb and snaffle! I've enough to do to _ride her on the saddle!_"] * * * * * [Illustration: A Suggestion: No more trouble from wire, damage to fences, etc.] * * * * * [Illustration: THE TRIALS OF AN M.F.H. _M.F.H._ (_to misguided enthusiast who has been cheering hounds on a bad scent_). "Now then! Am I going to hunt the hounds or are you?" _Enthusiast_ (_sweetly_). "Just as you please, m'lord, just as you please."] * * * * * [Illustration: OFF HIS GUARD _Farmer_ (_just coming up_). "Young gentleman riding your brown horse, my lord, had nasty accident a field or two back. Barbed wire--very ugly cuts!" _My Lord._ "Tut--tut--tut! Dear--dear--dear! Not the horse, I hope?"] * * * * * [Illustration: "BON VOYAGE!" _Mossu (shot into a nice soft loam), exultingly._ "A--ha--a! I am safe o-vère! Now it is your turn, Meester Timbre Jompre! Come on, sare!"] * * * * * [Illustration: ON THE WAY HOME FROM THE EXMOOR HUNT--NO KILL THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BRIDGE _Fair Huntress._ "What a pity the hounds let that splendid stag get away, Colonel, wasn't it?" _Colonel._ "Pity! Ha, if they'd only taken my advice we should have been up with him now, instead of being miles away on the wrong track!"] * * * * * [Illustration: _Distinguished Foreigner_ (_to good Samaritan who has caught his horse_). "Merci bien, monsieur! You save me much trouble. Before, I lose my horse--I lose him altogether, and I must put him in the newspaper!"] * * * * * [Illustration: VIVE LA CHASSE! _Foreign Visitor_ (_an enthusiastic "sportsman," viewing fox attempting to break_). "A-h-h-h! Halte-la! Halte! _You shall not escape!_"] * * * * * [Illustration: RATHER TOO MUCH _Lady_ (_having just cannoned Stranger into brook_). "Oh, I'm _so_ sorry I bumped you! Would you mind going in again for my hat?"] * * * * * THE END OF THE HUNTING SEASON (_By Our Own Novice_)