4 66 ikinas of tbe 1Rofc, IRffle, anfc 6un 



cockney, a conceited cox-comb, who has more money 

 than brains, will laugh at what he calls the boorish 

 manners of the Americans, and hint that nothing can be 

 done right except in England. Sir Grantley Berkley 

 will undoubtedly profit by the ungentlemanly demeanour 

 of some of his countrymen when in this country, and 

 conduct himself as only a gentleman should. To-day 

 this gentleman and his dogs start for St. Joseph ; from 

 that place they will go out into the western wilds on a 

 buffalo hunt, and return to England by Christmas. We 

 wish both Sir G. Berkley and his dogs unbounded 

 success." 



So Grantley Berkeley set forth on his journey, if not 

 " under the blessing of Heaven," at any rate under that 

 of The New York Herald. 



The American journalist was not so familiar with the 

 titles of our aristocracy then as he is now, and con- 

 sequently he sometimes makes Berkeley a baronet and 

 sometimes a lord. The simple " Honourable " conveyed 

 to the American mind no idea of aristocratic rank, 

 because it was the common prefix to the name of every 

 Senator, and Berkeley gives an amusing instance in 

 which an hotel-keeper apologised for having treated him 

 brusquely on his first arrival under the impression that 

 he was merely an " honourable " American Senator and 

 not an "honourable British Lord." 



The dogs which Berkeley brought over with him were 

 the subject of much ridicule at first. It was imagined 

 that he intended to hunt the buffalo with them. Yet 

 of the six he took out with him two were retrievers, 

 one a setter, one a bloodhound, and one a deer-lurcher. 



