Interference, Volume I by B. M. Croker

"Some griefs are med'cinable. " / -- CYMBELINE.

George Holroyd had fain to be content with the Ballingoole Harriers, instead of the Ward-Union and Meath hounds; his poverty but not his will consented to this pitiable change. However, even Harriers must be followed on horseback, and up to the present, although the Major had been making constant enquiries among his own immediate connections, and many sporting friends, no suitable steed was secured. A large number of the blind, the maimed, the halt, had been forthcoming, had been submitted for inspection, each and all a dead bargain, each sold as a personal favour to George, and for _no_ fault, so the Major expressively stated upon what he was pleased to call "his sacred word of honour. " George, who rode well, and recognised a decent horse when he saw it, at last grew tired of this farce, and said: