«6 LIFE OF MYTTON. 



thing like " the finish ; " and then returned to 

 Halston, and his harriers, which he had kept when 

 he was a child. 



But we will now look on him when a man ! As 

 the proud recollections of the Roman fathers often 

 disturbed the dreams of their sons, it is possible 

 that our hero, although I never heard him speak 

 of him, might have cherished the recollection of 

 the renowned General Mytton, and wished to 

 signalise himself, as he had done, in arms. Be 

 this as it may, at the age of nineteen, he entered, 

 as a Cornet, the 7th Hussars, and joined them in 

 France with the army of occupation. But as by 

 this time all fighting was at an end, Cornet Mytton 

 made himself signal in sundry other ways. A 

 heavy purse and an open hand are by no means 

 necessary qualifications in a soldier ; and it was 

 very unlikely that he, above all men, having only 

 a few months to wait for being in full possession 

 of his property, should keep without the magic 

 circle, and not enter into all kinds of youthful 

 mischief. Some of his feats were of a nearly harm- 

 less nature, such as his racing exploits — himself the 

 jockey ; his borrowing 3000/. of a banker at St. 

 Omer one day, and losing half of it the next at 



