ISO UFE OF MYTJON. 



horse, and forcing him into the water, he landed 

 in safety on the other side. Thus, by cutting off 

 an acute angle, he gained a considerable advantage 

 over his competitor ; and, jumping the sunken fence 

 into the flower-garden, arrived first at his hall-door. 

 It must be remembered that he could not swim, even 

 across a duck-pond ! 



It has been already shown how regardless Mr. 

 Mytton was of weather, whether hot or cold ; and 

 with the thermometer at zero, he would be seen 

 walking to his stables before breakfast, with nothing 

 on his person but his shirt, dressing-gown, and slip- 

 pers. On one occasion he mounted a hunter in this 

 partial attire, and, accompanied by one of his guests, 

 equally wild as himself, rode bare-backed over the 

 country for three or four miles. Then, he once took 

 Staples, Sir Bellingham Graham's man, who was fresh 

 to " those parts," for a look at the country, on the 

 day before hunting. Mytton on Milo showed the 

 way, and Staples on the Hit-or-Miss mare followed, 

 over some miles of stiff country, and with the Perry 

 in their line. The stranger did very well until they 

 came to a particularly green meadow, when Mytton 

 drove on to his companion and landed him in a bog, 

 from which he with much difficulty extricated him- 



