CONTENTS. ix 



Prison — Murderers and their Beer — Attempted Escapes — John 

 Tawell, Quaker ; his Trial for Murder and his previous Career 

 — " Apple-pip " Kelly — Imprisonment for Debt — Captain Paulet 

 and "Tally ho! Hanmer" Aii5 



CHAPTER IX. 



The " Rochester Room " at the White Hart, Aylesbury— Its Decor- 

 ation and History — The Glories of Eythrope— Sir Walter Scott 

 — Vernon's Anecdotes about Turner — Anecdotes of Landseer — 

 " Swill " from Her Majesty's Kitchens — Charles Gow — A Pun 

 and its Interpretation by /"w^^/? ... ... ... i^. 134 



CHAPTER X. 



The Railway Mania — George Hudson, the Railway King — Serving 

 Notices in Ireland — Railway Enterprise and Landlords — George 

 Stephenson and the "Eldest Child" — In Coaching Days — Old 

 Times in Winter — Dr. Lee's Prophecies and their Fulfilment — 

 The late Duke of Buckingham and Chandos : an Uphill Fight 

 — Stowe in Days of Prosperity — The Queen's Visit — In Days 

 of Adversity — Sir Thomas Aubrey as an Upright Judge — Sir 

 John Aubrey and his Dinners for the Free and Independent 



p. 148 



CHAPTER XI. 



University Steeplechase Meeting at Banbury — A Nasty Brook — A 

 Famous Race over the Broughton Farm — A Horse comes Up- 

 stairs — Leech Manning rides the little Grey Mare over the 

 Dining-room Table — Gambling and Betting — A Captain who 

 pursued Welshers — Of a Fool and his Folly — A Salt-water 

 Tragedy p. 168 



CHAPTER XII. 



Fox-Hunting and Stag-Hunting — A fine Run with "the Baron" — 

 Lord Lonsdale's Harriers and the Cumberland Bagmen — The 

 Ballad of " The Captive Fox " — Jack Hannan v. Johnny Broome 

 —Men of Peace and War — An Innocent Child, and a Clever 

 Clearance ... ... ... ... ... ... ... P- ^^3 



