GETTING A GUINEA. 27 



a beautiful china dessert plate. This was 

 not unobserved by the host, who said, 

 in his broken dialect 



"Got plesh my soul, every voun of 

 dose plates cost me a guinea ! " 



Whereupon the offender put his hand 

 in his pocket, and- taking out a coin 

 of that value, jauntingly threw it 

 towards the head of the table. The 

 company expressed their surprise by 

 their looks, but they did more by their 

 smiles when they saw their host quietly 

 take it up and put it in his pocket! 



As he lived in a mansion adjoining 

 the Hampshire country, he sometimes 

 hunted with them on the alternate day 

 with his own. One morning, when the 

 former met at Beworth Cross-roads, 

 finding a fox in Thorley Wood, always a 

 certain find, we run him to Blackhouse, 

 where we came to a check. The Dutch 

 gentleman, with others, were quietly seat* 



