CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XIII. 



The Vienna Exhibition of 1873 — A Sturdy English Watch — The 

 Emperor admires my Bull — A Contrast in Costume — The Paris 

 Exhibition of 1878 — Four-horned Sheep — Rosa Bonheur visits 

 the Cattle — Foot-and-Mouth Disease — The Projected Palestine 

 Canal — The Times condemns it — Its Route, its Cost, its 

 Future p. 197 



CHAPTER XIV. 



Posting on the Great North Road — Bob Newman of Regent Street 

 — Old "Boys" — Loyal Tom King of Amersham ; he drives 

 King George III. — An Elopement and the Sequel — May-Day 

 Procession of the Mails — The Railway Fiend — The Wisdom of 

 W^eller — Old London Inns — An English Bill of Fare and the 

 Menu a la Russe—T\v^ Old Norfolk Circuit— The Bar Mess : 

 Fitzroy Kelly v. Serjeant Storks — One Pint many Times — 

 Puritan Ipswich — A Peccant Engine p. 210 



CHAPTER XV. 



Shorthorn Breeding— The Byles Dinners — Lord Dunmore to the 

 Rescue — Eminent Breeders in the Palmy Days— My Sale and 

 Sales in General — The Rose of the Quarter Sessions— A Dis- 

 sertation on Poultry — The Prebendal Geese— The Aylesbury 

 Duckling — A Year of W'et and a Year of War — A Legal 

 Decision on Crops A -3^ 



CHAPTER XVI. 



A Poor Law Guardian — The Curse of Out-door Relief— The 

 Fortunes of Agriculture— Harvest Homes— Allotments and 

 Gardens— Steam and Spade — The Virtues of Co-operation — 

 Since 1830 — The Swing Riots — Cottage Accommodation— The 

 Smock Frock and the Black Coat— The Archdeacon and 

 Potatoes— The Better Part /• -44 



