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THE HON. ADOLPHUS LIGHTFOOT. 



THE YOUNGER SON. 



ALLO ! " suddenly exclaims our friend, Charles 

 Wildcats, who on foot, busily engaged in 

 tightening his horse's girths, looks round, from 

 beneath the saddle-flaps, with a red face and a very large 

 D on the tip of his tongue, to see whose approach it is that 

 causes his horse suddenly to fidget about. " Hallo ! " why 

 here's the old original 'Younger Son,' I declare ! bless his 

 old heart ! Stand still, do, you idiot ! " (this to his horse). 

 '' You've seen old Dolly often enough before, I'm sure." 

 ''Well, you old sinner you," goes on Charlie, as a slim, 

 well-dressed man, much moustached and whiskered, whose 

 age might be anything between fifty and sixty ; a certain 

 haggard look about the region of the eyes telling its own 

 tale, and probably making him appear older than he really 

 was, now rode up and joined the group of sportsmen 

 assembled in one of the big rides of Oakapple Wood, one 

 of the largest covers in the Old Harkaway county, and 

 which Lord Daisyfield's hounds were now drawing for a 

 fox. " Well, you old sinner you, who'd have thought of 

 seeing you ? Why, I thought you were larking about in 

 Paris or some other equally naughty place, and here you 

 are, turning up in Oakapple Wood, looking as virtuous as 



