The Business of Pleasure, Volume 1Chapman and Hall, 1865 |
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Página 142 - During this time not a hound stirs beyond the sill of the open door. One remarkable instance of discipline presented itself on this day. Vulcan, the crowning ornament of the dog-pack, was standing near the door, waiting for his name to be called. I happened to mention it, though rather in an under-tone ; then in he came, and licked Sir Bellingham's hand; but though his head was close to the trough, and the grateful viands smoking under his nose, he never attempted to eat; but on his master saying...
Página 98 - The trips to Edinburgh, and the shorter excursions in England, attract tradesmen and their wives ; merchants' clerks away for a week's holiday, roughing it with a knapsack, and getting over an immense number of miles before they return ; swart mechanics, who seem never to be able entirely to free themselves from traces of their life-long labour, but who...
Página 149 - Ratciiffe, that a master of hounds would never have his hand out of his pocket, and must always have a guinea in...
Página 99 - Cockney element in it, and is mostly composed of very high-spirited people, whose greatest delight in life is "having a fling", and who do Paris, and rush through France, and through Switzerland to Chamounix, compare every place they are taken to with the views which formed part of the exhibition at the Egyptian Hall, carry London everywhere about them in dress, habits, and conversation, and rush back, convinced that they are great travellers. From these roysterers the July and September excursionists...
Página 242 - ... forgot. Imagine you saw your bones tumbled out of your graves, as they are like shortly to be, and men handling your skulls and enquiring, whose is this? Tell me of what account will the world be then f — THOBESBT'S Preface.
Página 142 - ... and down the troughs, ordering back such hounds as he thinks have fed sufficiently. During this time not a hound stirs beyond the sill of the open door. One remarkable instance of discipline presented itself on this day. Vulcan, the crowning ornament of the dog-pack, was standing near the door, waiting for his name to be called. I happened to mention it, though rather in an under-tone...
Página 99 - Swiss excursions, the company is of a very different order; the Whitsuntide trip has a good deal of the Cockney element in it, and is mostly composed of very high-spirited people, whose greatest delight in life is 'having a fling'.
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Página 99 - Mercantile community in all travel as if impressed with the notion that they are engaged in fulfilling the wishes of a lifetime, in a pleasant duty never to be repeated.