LIFE OF MYTTON. 

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license In society, and although no one doubted his 

 standing fire, if called upon, it Is my firm persuasion 

 nothlng'would have Induced him to have aimed at a 

 man to destroy him. In the saddle, too, he ran 

 prodigious risks for his life, not only by riding at 

 apparently impracticable fences, with hounds, but 

 in falling from his horses when intoxicated. For 

 the former of these acts he was for many years so 

 notorious, that it was a common answer to the 

 question, whether a certain sort of fence could be 

 leaped, or whether any man would attempt it ?— 

 that U would do for Mytton. And his style of 

 driving was equally remarkable. Whenever the 

 country people saw a carriage or tandem going along 

 at a greater speed than usual, they would cry out, 

 .'There goes Mytton!" and run to the road-side 

 to give him a cheer. He once actually galloped at 

 full speed over a rabbit-warren, to try whether or 

 not his horse would fall, which of course he did, 

 and rolled over him. This perfect contempt of 

 danger was truly characteristic of himself; but, not 

 content with the possession of it, he endeavoured to 

 impart it to his friends. As he was one day driving 

 one of them in a gig, who expressed a strong regard 

 for his neck, with a hint that he considered it m 



