128 SaitJing; to f^ouutJ^. 



perhaps, the most impressive, though the closing 

 scene in your httle dental drama. 



There they sit, poor souls, with swelled faces and 

 throbbing gums, eyeing you with unspeakable envy, 

 and many of them only deterred by pure shame 

 from rushing after you into the street, and so making 

 good their escape, and if you do not, when you gaze 

 upon that sorry group, re-echo very heartily .the 

 sentiments of the Pharisee of old it is a wonder ! G© 

 then to your dentists, my friends, determined, as I 

 do, to look at everything through the rosiest of 

 glasses,- and to extract as much mirth as you can out 

 of everything excepting his " gas." Depend upon it, 

 this is the way to meet life's troubles, and your 

 sorrows and pains, which are to a great extent 

 imaginary, as also greatly magnified by an ignoble 

 and anterior funk, will, you will find, very consider- 

 ably be discounted. 



RIDING TO HOUNDS. 



HIS is a subject which I do not venture to 

 broach without much hesitation and many 

 misgivings, as it is one which I feel that 

 many older sportsmen, whose experience has neces- 

 sarily been longer than my own, would be far better 



