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asked by two or three at once, " Have you heard how Dick is? " — 

 " I have been to his bedside," said Lord D. ; " he has had a restless 

 night, nevertheless I hope he will do well ; but he made me smile 

 when he said he had no doubt but he should be able to go out with 

 the hounds on Wednesday ! He also inquired a/ter Lightning's eyes, 

 and hoio Bufus and Mortimer had fed ? " 



Monday the 20th. — Lord Darlington met at No-man's moor, 

 about five miles from Newton House. Drew several plantations, 

 and Mr. Scroope's whin ; plenty of pheasants, but no fox. Found 

 beautifully in Wylde Wood, the property of Mr. Wyvill, Member for 

 York, and had thirty minutes to ground, very straight and very fast 

 till just at the end, when the hounds divided, or we must have 

 tasted him. There was a very large field this day, and amongst 

 them his Grace of Leeds. Lord Darlington rode his famous grey 

 horse Panegyric, purchased some years since of his Grace, and 

 Mr. Milbanke went very well upon a horse once Mr. Maxse's. 



As Sir Bellingham and myself were to return to Norton Conyers 

 that afternoon, and we were then nearly twenty miles distant from 

 it, we took leave of his Lordship as he was trying to bolt his fox, 

 and made towards the place where our hacks were planted. On the 

 road we passed through the village of Burniston, and here I saw a 

 sign to a public-house quite new to me. It consisted of portraits at 

 full length and in full costume of the four following personages : — a 

 king, a soldier, a parson, and a farmer ; and the house is yclept The 

 Four Alls. Out of the mouth of His Majesty were the words, " I 

 govern all ; " the soldier says, " I fight for all," the parson, " I pray 

 for all," and the farmer finishes with " I pay for all." This reminds 

 me of an inscription over the door of an inn which Lord Darlington 

 informed me he saw at Pisa in Italy, and which he was kind enough 

 to transcribe for me when at Eaby. Its ingenuity consists in being 

 written in four different languages, and yet the rhyme and metre so 

 well preserved : — 



" In questa Casa trouverafce. 

 Tout ce qu'on peut souhaiter, 

 Bonum vinura, pisces, carnes. 

 Coaches, chaises, horses, harness." 



For the benefit of those who only know one language, the following 



