60 UNASKED ADVICE. 



youth aforesaid is to be found in a conservatory^ superin- 

 tending the choice and adjustment of a bouquet for his 

 button-hole_, an article without which it would appear 

 no young man can mount his hunter in comfort and 

 safety. If our youthful hero hails from his hotel or 

 lodgings^ he is still later^ as having most likely sat up 

 over night a deal too late, and breakfasted before dressing 

 for hunting : a fatal proceeding when time is an object. 

 All which aflPect the hack. Don^t condemn the wearing 

 of flowers, however, by the first flight, as the remains of 

 the bouquet may act after the manner of buoys in an 

 intricate channel of the sea. If you be not absolutely 

 first, and the way out of a field be intricate, a white 

 camellia, perched on a thorn, close by a bit of red cloth, 

 will indicate the spot where you are to have the obstacle 

 which has not succeeded in pounding your predecessor, 

 and, trusting to the adage that " whatever man has done^ 

 man may do,^^ I sincerely hope you will get over, and, 

 finding your friend on his back in the next ditch, assume 

 that place which it is the desire of all customers to fill, 

 first of the first flight. And never forget the high 

 authority who has spoken to this eflect, if the words are 

 not quoted quite accurately, ^^ Better thirty yards before 

 the hounds, than one behind the throng V^ 



THE HARNESS HORSE. 



The above can hardly be considered as a variety of the 

 horse, harness being a trade which may be followed by 

 any and ever}^ one, of the varieties already noticed. Any- 



