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Hunt. The younger artists are represented by such 

 well-known men as the Marquis of AVorcester, who 

 is equally at home on the bench of a well-appointed 

 drag, and as skilful in handhng four resolute horses, 

 as he is in playing the role of huntsman, and going 

 the pace across the big fields, stout fences, and stone 

 walls of Wiltshire, in pursuit of the wily fox, at the 

 tail of one of the finest packs of hounds in the 

 kingdom ; Lord Carington, a first-rate performer 

 across country, whose nerve and judgment cause 

 him to be equally clever in handling the ribbons and 

 tooling a team of highly-bred horses, as he is at top- 

 ping a stiff flight of posts and rails, going a burster 

 at a bullfinch, or having a shy at a brawling brook, 

 when riding in a rattling run with the Quorn or the 

 Cottesmore ; Viscount Cole, who performs in artistic 

 style on his well-appointed coach, handling his 

 admirable lot of nags right well; Captain Whitmore, 

 whose handsome, well matched, and bloodlike lot of 

 greys are the admiration of all observers ; Sir Henry 

 Tufton, whose equally matched — or I might say 

 matchless — set of very dark brown or black horses, in • 

 variably attracts a large share of attention ; Captain 

 Wombwell, who not only handles his horses well and 

 looks altogether a workman, but is " all there " when 

 it is necessary to exhibit coolness and determination, 

 without which a man has no business to attempt to 

 drive four horses. 



Talking of coolness brings back to mind an old 

 friend, the neatest and most gentlemanly of men, 

 with an amount of self-possession that enabled him 

 to do things that would never have been tolerated 

 in any other man not equally endowed with impu- 



