A FRENCH FOX HUNTER.
During tho tiino tho Into Lord Tnlbot hunted Staffordshire, lie had a French gcntlomnn on a visit nt his house, who just know enough of tho English Innguago to raalco liis convorsntion highly amusing. Boing ono dny out wiih tli »"> hounds, ho addressed hi* lordship as foU lows s— Vfo for, I forgot vnt you sny von do hound run do fox without sooing him,' ' Oil ! satd Lord T. ; ' I suppose you moan tho sornt's 'Ah I to bo suhj> ivmvoroil tli j Fronohinnn ;' I nhvnys forgot tho snr.tc. Soon nftor this oxplnnntion, tho hounds found their fox, tvid bogrtn to ran vory hard, Monsieur (who whs, perhaps, of n great mnn's opinion tlint au idon is but a rosomblnnco— a notion, n» opera* tj on — or, in short, anything of which the mind is capable} having jurnblod togethor all that could bo dorvcJ from tho Trorld 'smoll/ rod up to Lord Tnlbot, and Pxolnimod— TJravo mo lor I by gar, but you bafo von tnm slink now/
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Inangahua Times, Issue 02, 7 October 1878, Page 2
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172A FRENCH FOX HUNTER. Inangahua Times, Issue 02, 7 October 1878, Page 2
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