no . ^ ^eniltai* ?3ting. 



I, although suffering from a bronchial affection of 

 long standing, was not, until my return home (when I 

 consulted the thermometer and weather-cock), aware 

 that the wind had been throughout the day in any 

 colder quarter than due South, nor that the atmos- 

 phere had been the reverse of balmy," etc., etc. 



For this trifling and more or less accurate notice, 

 which I smuggle carefully in amongst some sporting 

 matter, I receive a **note" of acknowledgment, with 

 which I do not light my pipe ; and for another, 

 drawing attention to the superiority of Messrs. 

 Bagwell's small clothes to those of all competitors, 

 I receive free gratis for nothing, not only for in- 

 spection, but for use, a couple of pairs of those 

 ver}^ serviceable requisites. 



The same ma}^ be said indeed of all that is mine. I 

 am, so to speak, a walking advertisement of goods, 

 minus the price list, which I have but little doubt 

 my friends would also much have liked to have 

 attached to their respective presents, yet even I, 

 a ''Special," should, had it been suggested, at that 

 indignity have drawn the line. Well ! live and let 

 live has alwa3's hitherto been my motto, and perhaps 

 I am doing an injustice to my fellow scribes and our 

 successors by making these confessions upon relin- 

 quishing so noble a calling. 



Yet I cannot think that even these acknowledgments 



