WISE SAWS AND MODERN 

 INSTANCES 



Given good nerve, good fox, good horse, and who would change with 

 a king ? 



Mrs. Edivard Kennard. 



The Wholesome Smell of the Stable >^?^ 



OF one thing I am certain, that the reader 

 must be much delighted with the wholesome 

 smell of the stable, with which many of these 

 pages are redolent ; what a contrast to the sickly- 

 odours exhaled from those of some of my con- 

 temporaries, especially of those who pretend to be 

 of the highly fashionable class, and who treat of 

 reception-rooms, well may they be styled so, in 

 which dukes, duchesses, earls, countesses, arch- 

 bishops, bishops, mayors, mayoresses — not forgetting 

 the writers themselves, both male and female — 

 congregate and press upon one another ; how 

 cheering, how refreshing, after having been nearly 

 knocked down by such an atmosphere, to come 

 in contact with genuine stable hartshorn. 



George Borrow. 



Fox-Hunting in the Old Days o >o 



WHAT sport is there to equal that of fox- 

 hunting, with its healthy exercise, change 

 of scene, sociability, and excitement ? Was it not 

 Lord Palmcrston who said the finest thing for 

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