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conned its pages before the happy day 

 came that saw him safely packed into the 

 Aberdeen portion of the Northern express 

 at Euston. 



Now in this treasured volume there 

 appeared a youth, in whom he thought 

 fondly to trace his own lineaments. The 

 youth was young and keen — so was he ; 

 the youth knew something of shooting, 

 but was completely new to driving — the 

 cases seemed exactly parallel. Mr. Stuart- 

 Wortley, in his own inimitable style, de- 

 scribes how he accompanied this youth to 

 his first drive, and gently rebukes him, 

 when it is over, for not shooting better, 

 though careful calculations showed that 

 the novice had only fired thirty-six cart- 

 ridges for twenty-nine birds. 



Without aspiring to rival such a 

 performance, it was with hopes buoyed 

 up that the writer started forth the 

 following morning. 



Over the sorry proceedings of that 

 day let us draw a veil. That evening 

 saw a wiser and sadder youth wending his 



