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ilanthropist, the well-known Earl of Ladythorne, of Tantiv

saddle-horses might often be seen of a summer afternoon, tossing their heads up and down Curtain Crescent, to the amusement of the inhabitants of that locality. His lordship indeed was a well-known general patron of all that

behind him down St.James's Street (he does not go quite so well up), his easy jaunty air, tall graceful figure, and elasticity of step, might make him pass for a man in that most uncertain period of existence the "prime of life," and if uncivil, unfriendly, inexorable time has whitened his pow, his lordship carries it off with the aid of gay costume and colour. He h

eat opportunities, for, under pretence of finding a fox,

e had great sources of information, and was very careful in his statements. His lordship and Dicky had now hunted Featherbedfordshire together for nearly forty years, and though they might not be so Ex. gra., As we say in the classics. "A Fox Run into a Lady's Dressing-Room.-The Heythrop hounds met at Ranger's Lodge, within about a mile of Charlbury, found in Hazell Wood, and went away through Great Cran well, crossing the park of Cornbury, on by the old kennel to Live Oak, taking the side hill, leaving Leafield (so celebrated for clay-pipes) to his left, crossed the bottom by Five Ashes; then turned to the right, through King's Wood. Smallstones, Knighton Copse, over the plain to Ranger's Lodge, with the hounds close at his brush, where they left him in a mysterious manner. After the lapse of a little time he was discovered by a maid- servant in the ladies' dressing-room, from which he immediately bolted on the appearance of the petticoats, without doing the slightest damage to person or pr

of fortune was at the cover side, and though Jerry Pringle (who looked upon them as synonymous) had always denounced "gamblin

a-keepers at the Royal Academy try to lead people into giving them something in contravention of the rule above their heads, by jingling a few half-pence before their faces. Moreover, Billy had shown an inclination for equitation-by nearly galloping several of Mr. Spavin, the neighbouring livery-stabl

orses she had no doubt were the same animals, working their ways honestly from year's end to year's end, or at most with only the sort of difference between them that there is between a milliner and a dressmaker. Be that as it may, however, all things consid

endents and people whom he could d-- and do what he liked with. Though the Crumpletin Railway cut right through his country, making it "varry contagious," as Harry Swan, his first whip, said, for sundry large towns, the sporting inhabitants thereof preferred the money-griping propensities of a certain Baronet-Sir Moses Mainchan

cted by the well-known-perhaps to some of our readers too well-known-equestrian coquette, Miss de Glancey of Half-the-watering-places-in-England-and-some-on-the-Continent, whose many conquests had caused her to be regarded as

coarse women, as the slim ones call them.) and of disliking foxhunting ones, the sofa and not the saddle being, as he always said, the proper place for the ladies; but Miss de Glancey prided herself upon her power of subjugating the tyrant man, and gladly undertook to

st, with white cords and caps, attended by Boggledike and his whips in hats, and their last season's pinks or purples, disturbing the numerous litters of cubs with which the country

than I am with this year's. I really think in a few more seasons we shall get 'em as near parfection as possible. Did your lordship notish that Barbara betch, how she took to runnin' to-day? The first time she has left my oss's

his lordship, smiling

Barbara was walked, a seein' a pup I have there now, and I think I seed the very neatest lady's pad I ever set eyes on!"-Dicky's light-bl

south-a Miss Dedancey, I think they call her," with

p, "Dedancey; never heard of the

House, but her osses stand at the Spread Heagl

Horses! what, has

my fancy most:-the neatest stepper, with the lightest

. What's she goin

They say she's the finest o

agreeableness of having to leave them in the lurch,-the disagreeableness of seeing them floored,-the disagreeableness of seeing them all ru

or his brother whip of some loitering or refractory hound. His lordship had a great opinion of Dicky's judgment, and though they might not always agree in their views, he never damped Dicky's ardour by openly differing with him. He thought by Dicky's way of mentioning the lady that he had a

indomitable youth, as soon as they got the

one seldom sees in the country, for though we breeds our women very beautiful-uncommon 'andsome, I may say-we don't polish them hup to that fine degree of parfection that they do in the towns, and even if we did they would most likely spoil the 'ole thing by some untoward unsightly dress, jest as a country servant spoils a London livery by a coloured tie, or goin' ab

el, I suppose," observ

king a clean breast of it, "jest so," adding, "at least

" muttered h

ate his dinner, and quaffed his sweet and dry and twenty-five Lafitte without ever thinking about either the horse, or the lady, or the habit, or