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and the Hogkeeper; the Lord of the Bedchamber, and 

 the Groom of the Stables ; the Colonel of the Castle 

 Guards^ and the Major who looks after all the City 

 ^AzfT/^-guards : besides half the noblemen and gentle- 

 men who deal in pigs, pride, and potatoes. 



Sir Shawn and his party were greeted with a hearty 

 reception from the Lord Luff, and at once they 

 entered into the sport. 



HIGH LIFE IN DUBLIN. 



Two pigs were started in grand style ; both half 

 starved, and fine in their limbs as antelopes : they 

 had been trained for the purpose, and were to run 

 from the corner of the Lodge to Callum's Privy, 

 which stands as a beacon, close by the Park entrance, 

 to direct travellers by smell on to Vice-Royalty. The 

 distance may be a quarter of a mile, and a handful of 

 yards more or less ; a bunch of turnips and a platter of 

 oatmeal porridge was placed at the extremity, which 

 they could scent long before the start took place. 



Lord Loivtherbag seconded the bay pig, and Colonel 

 Brute the black one. Falconer was bottle-holder to 

 both, and Jeremiah Daily the umpire. The race was 

 good — the hungry animals ran like devils, and the 

 black made his match complete in the twinkling of a 

 Jew's eye. 



Much money was lost and won on this eventful race, 

 and Sir Shawn sported a fifty with his Excellency, 

 which he lost, and didn't care a d — n about. 



The next grand scene was one to which Hogarth 

 only could do any justice. Six pigs of the real 

 Kilkenny breed were started in red ribbons, which 



