14 THE HORSE ANJ) HIS RIDER. 



On his arriving at Oxford or Cambridge, liow often has 

 the undergraduate, for the professed purposes of applica- 

 tion and recreation, submitted to his parents or guardians 

 a supplication for those three stereotyped wants of col- 

 lege life, "a little money, a private tutor, and a JiorseP^ 

 Afterwards, in his manhood, and even in his old age, 

 how often has the Prime Minister of England, during a 

 most important debate, risen from his seat in Par- 

 liament to propose to the legion of senators around 

 him "that this House shall adjourn from Tuesday to 

 Thursday," for the well known object (acknowledged 

 by "loud and protracted cheering") of enabling him- 

 self, those who surround him, and everybody else, "to 

 go to the Derby," to purchase '^ Dorling's correct card 

 of the names of the hokses, and the colours of their 



KIDEES !" 



Among our leading statesmen, how many, as patrons of 

 the turf, have purchased for several thousand guineas — a 

 horse I How many, including Pitt, Fox, Lord Althorp, 

 Lord Derby, Lord Palmerston, Sir Francis Burdett, &c., 

 &c., have been ardent followers of hounds ! 



Her Majesty Queen Victoria and the Emperor Napoleon 

 III. each keep a pack of stag-hounds ; the Prince Consort, 

 a pack of harriers. During the Peninsular war, and again 

 while commanding the army of occupation in France, 

 the Duke of Wellington, besides fighting and writing, 



