"He is the greatest liar I ever met with; and yet I never caught him in
a falsehood, for he believes it is no use to tell me one.
"He is most utterly dishonest, yet I have trusted him with sums that
would, in his opinion, have made him a rich man for life, and he
accounted to the utmost shilling; but I advise you not try the same, for
if you do he most assuredly will cheat you!"
Among the heavy looking hounds, which clustered round this hopeful
gentleman, I quickly singled out two couple of widely different breed
and character from the rest; your thorough high-bred racing fox-hounds,
with ears rounded, thin shining coats, clean limbs, and all the marks of
the best class of English hounds.
"Aye! Frank," said Archer, as he caught my eye fixed on them, "you have
found out my favorites. Why, Bonny Belle, good lass, why Bonny Belle!--
here Blossom, Blossom, come up and show your pretty figures to your
countryman! Poor Hanbury--do you remember, Frank, how many a merry day
we've had with him by Thorley Church, and Takely forest?--poor Hanbury
sent them to me with such a letter, only the year before he died; and
those, Dauntless and Dangerous, I had from Will, Lord Harewood's
huntsman, the same season!"
"There never was sich dogs--there never was afore in Orange," said Tom.
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