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sire to win honor at Queen Rosa's tournaments ? 

 Have you an ambition to see upon your sideboard 

 cups of silver encircled by the Rose ? Listen, and 

 I will now tell you what Roses to show, and how 

 to show them. 



CHAPTER XHL 



ROSES FOR EXHIBITION. 



As he who can ride exchanges his pony for 

 a cob, and his cob for a hunter, and, having 

 achieved pads and brushes, where hounds are 

 slow, fences are easy, and rivals few, longs for a 

 gallop at racing speed over the pastures and the 

 " Oxers" of High Leicestershire, for a run with 

 Tailby or the Quorn — as every man with a 

 hobby (I never met a man without one) is desir- 

 ous to ride abroad, and witch the world with 

 noble horsemanship, — so the Rosarian, enlarging 

 his possessions and improving his skill, has yearn- 

 ings, which no mother, nor sisters, nor people 

 coming to call, can satisfy, for sympathy, for 

 knowledge, for renown. He is tired of charging 

 at the quintain, which he never fails to hit, in the 

 silent court-yard of his home: he will break a lance 

 for his ladve in the crowded lists. And who loves 



