CO A' TENTS. 



PART II. 



With whom compared — Ilis amours — His popularity and its 

 decline — His excessive drinking, and its influence on his 

 character and health — His toilet — His generous conduct 

 towards his mother — His philanthropy — How to hire a 

 servant — His talents — His last contest for the borough of 

 Shrewsbury — The Electioneering Squibs — His politics — His 

 farming — His timber — His planting — As a sportsman — His 

 hounds, and a day with them — As a horseman— His shooting 

 — His racing — His horse Euphrates — His race-cups — His 

 start and progress on the turf — His handsome conduct 

 towards his jockey — His autograph — The Guy Stakes at 

 Warwick — Summary of his racing career — The stables and 

 boxes at Halston — Number of the stakes and plates won by 

 his horses — His second marriage^His conduct in the mar- 

 riage state — As a husband and a father, . pp. 77 — 148 



PART III. 



Mr. Mytton's character illustrated by anecdotes— His feats on 

 horseback — His frolics — With waggon-horses — With a bag 

 fox — With rats on the ice — After herons — With a badger 

 — With foxes in the bar of an inn — With "a bagman" — 

 With a trainer — With a broken-kneed horse — With a flannel 

 petticoat — With a horse-breaker — With a baker — With a 

 Shrewsbury tradesman— The row at a "hell" — His shooting 

 with a rifle — A cooler after the herons — Extraordinary 

 performances with hounds — Swimming the river Severn — 

 Tandem-driving by moonlight — In a gig with Nimrod — 

 His gig carried over the lodge gate — A parallel instance at 

 Wrexham — "Tom Leigh," of High Leigh, Cheshire — The 

 sale catalogue — The Shavington Day ; " Now for the honour 

 of Shropshire ! " pp. 1.19 — 176 



