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Mr. Punch in the Hunting Field

NEW SPORTING DICTIONARY OF FAMILIAR LATIN PHRASES.

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Labour overcomes everything
Labour overcomes everything

(1) Labour omnia vincit. (Labour overcomes everything.)

After you.
After you.

(2) Ars est celare artem. "Après vous, mademoiselle!"

They all go off
They all go off

(3) Exeunt Omnes. (They all go off.)]

A Genuine Sportswoman

Mrs. Shodditon (to Captain Forrard, on a cub-hunting morning.) "I do hope you'll have good sport, and find plenty of foxes."

Captain Forrard. "Hope so. By the way, how is that beautiful collie of yours that I admired so much?"

Mrs. Shodditon. "Oh! Fanny! poor dear! Our keeper shot it by mistake for a fox!"

after weary tramp
after weary tramp

Short-sighted Party (thrown earlier, after weary tramp, thinks he sees mount on ploughed upland, and approaches bush coaxingly.) "Whoa, my beauty! Steady, my gal, steady then," &c.

discovers error
discovers error

Same Short-sighted Party arrived at thornbush, discovers error, and reflects—"Five miles from station, perhaps ten—fifty miles from town, missed express, missed dinner, lost mount, wet through, getting dusk, and, by the way, where am I?"

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[Left reflecting.

Gorgeous Stranger
Gorgeous Stranger

Gorgeous Stranger. "I say, Huntsman, would you mind blowing your horn two or three times? I want my fellow, who has my flask, to know where we are, don't you know!"

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