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knows this too ; and never has her good-humoured face been sullied by a frown , when I have returned to her covered with mud , and hours too late for dinner . I have hunted tigers and elephants in India , have galloped , as well as Captain Head , over the Pampas in South America , in pursuit of the flexile puma ; have travelled to Germany expressl y to chase the boar , ( this was all before I married though , ) and
now , here have I been for years in gloriously running after such trumpery vermin as foxes , and shamming to feel that a stag hunt is a noble pastime , all because I married . Ah , my wife is not aware how much enjoyment I have relinquished for her sake ! I am a young man , Sir—yes , still a young man , although my youngsters , who are just come from Eton , with their trim waists and mincing gait , would fain persuade me that I am "Mr . D . senior : this is very presuming in Dick and Bob—I mean Richard and Robert— 'there are no Dicks and Bobs now ! No
boys left on the earth—nothing now , but young men and old men ! No girls neither—Nel is come home ( I used to call her Nel , because of that glorious Mrs . Jordan ) from Blackheath , — - Miss Eleanor — with wide plaits on each side of her cheeks , like a hideous sphinx . ' The other young ladies wear their hair so / The very reason , as I tell her , why she should not . We don ' t want our daughters to look the same , like files of soldiers—but they are alike , sir—they are ! All girls , —I should say , young ladies , are as much alike as flocks of sheep ; all talk alike , look , dance , play , write alike , sit with the left foot out , and enter a room , alike . I don ' t now ask my daughter to flay
to me , on the piano , as I used to do , before she went to this finishing school ; but I request her to * take exercise , ' she feels the satire , laughs prettily at * papa ' s wit , ' but sits down ; and though the rogue positively strives to moderate her violence , by playing as softly as she can , the keys crash , the instrument rocks , her cheeks burn , her huge sleeves flutter , her feet work the pedals like a treadmill—you'd suppose a grenadier was setting his
strength against my Broadwood—and she finall y rises in such a heat , y ou'd think my Tippoo had carried her r in at the death ' I tell her this will supersede horse-exercise , to keep her in health . Then , sir , I ' m vexed with Dick : the little dandy fancies it grand to follow the hounds ; but could you believe it of a son of mine , he will sneak after every miserable inoffensive hare , which
my valiant neighbours p lease to set their wits against : now this is one of my peculiarities , which they style whims , —I can ' t , nor I won ' t run the breath out of the body of a poor little terrified hare ; ' tis so cowardly—so cruel ! I'd rather boot and spur to chase a weasel . I must try and get Dick oft * to India , where he might talk with propriety about * bluzing scents / and ' bruising riders , ' and stand a chance to be made a man of , by sharpening his courage ° a
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22 tB A Boar Hunter .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1834, page 228, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2631/page/72/
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