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Fair science here alone has sway, 

 Fine horse, fine man, are thrown away. 

 Come, then, and see, that nose and pace, 

 Are the twin-sisters of the chase." 



Over the side-board is a short-horned heifer, together with a 

 new Leicester ewe, and Keith Hall in the background, which are 

 all in character here, his lordship having signalized himself as a 

 farmer, and more especially as a breeder. In other parts of the 

 room, are the following pictures and prints : " Lord Darlington 

 and his Hounds." " Hounds breaking cover," by Chalon 

 (capital). " A Mail Coach." (It is scarcely necessary to observe, 

 Lord Kintore is a coachman.) " The mails leaving the London 

 Post-office" both good. " A Plan of a Kennel," in sections. 

 Excellent print of a man, with a bumper in his hand, about to 

 drink fox-hunting. " The Exeter Waggon." " Tom Oldaker on 

 Brush." " Mr. Ralph Lambton on Undertaker." " Philip 

 Payne* on his old Grey Horse." " Daviesf on Columbine." 

 " Mr. Parker and the Worcestershire Hounds." " Mr. Charles 

 Newnham finding his fox." " Tom Crane, and three hounds," 

 with these lines 



" Alas ! honest Tom ; he's gone to repose, 

 And he and the foxes no longer are foes." 



" A jolly party," viz. Farley, Matthews, and Liston ; with the 

 following under- written, in his lordship's own hand, as if he 

 longed to have made the fourth : 



"We'll drive all care and pain away, 

 And pass a jovial night. 



Over the door-way are " Going out in the morning," with a 

 fox's head, and several smaller things ; and a most amusing print 

 of a " London Cabman," of the very lowest description, under 

 which is written " A Palpable." His fare tells him to drive 

 him to the Old Bailey. " The Old Bailey, sir ; vy I dusent 

 know sich a place." But, aside, to himself " Now, vat can he 

 want at the Old Bailey ! !" On the mantel-piece is a silver horn, 

 the gift of his brother huntsman, Mr. Codrington. 



In the drawing-room as in my own shines the great John 

 Warde. "The grand Leicestershire Steeple Chase." "Dick 



* Philip Payne, huntsman to the late Duke of Beaufort. 



* Davies, at present huntsman to his Majesty. 



