“It ought to be just reversed,” rejoined I.
“There would be much greater truth in the assertion, when generally applied,” returned Trimbush. “A fox is frequently lost through them, and rare, indeed, is the occurrence when any act on their part may be regarded as one of assistance in killing him.”
“I begin to have a great contempt for the ignorance of human beings,” observed I.
“All of us do at the end of our first season,” replied my friend. “We discover, by that time, what a set of know-nothings men are, and, if worthy to be retained in the pack, take no notice whatever of their cheers or rates; but merely avoid their horses’ feet, and get away from them as far and as fast as we can.”
CHAPTER XII.
“When early primroses appear,
And vales are decked with daffodils,
I hail the new reviving year,