Excerpt from Plain of Ringlets?

Thus, for instance, if he saw Mr. Cordy Brown, the butcher, stealing out of town, with his spurs in his hat, concealing, as he thought, his hunting apparel under his olive-coloured Macintosh, he would immediately begin, sivin and four's elivin, and eighteen, is twenty-nine - there's that Cordy Brown going out hunting again - rand eight is thirty-sivin - much better be taking up Willowedge and Co.'s overdue bill, than breaking people's hedges scrambling after Jonathan J obling's barriers - and fourteen is fifty-one - Jonathan will be coming to grief himself some day, see his name to a great deal of very suspicious paper - and sivin is fifty-eight; take care he don't do me - with which wise resolution he would dive his hands into the depths of his capacious trouser pockets and begin his sivin-and-four calculations upon somebody else. Not that old Goldspink altogether disapproved of hunting, for at the instigation of his ambitious wife, he had brought our here No. 1, what he called a pair of hunting horses, to enable him to follow the chase with his noble but sadly over drawing customer, the Duke of Tergiversation's foxhounds; but our young friend, after two or three spread-eagleings on his back, became so disgusted with a sharpish switch across the bridge of his nose from the return branch of an ash tree, that he gladly took advantage of a temporary ailment to one of his horse's back legs, to withdraw from the chase, and at the period of our story, was turning his attention to what he considered the more profitable occupation of the Turf. As we shall presently have him down at Roseberry Rocks Races, we will defer a further descrip tion of his person until he comes; it being evident that a man's looks depend very much upon what he puts on, just as a lady is one person in a bonnet, and another in a riding-hat. We will, therefore, now return to the Rocks, and amuse ourselves there as best we can, till Jasper arrives.

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