152 OLD FASHIONS. 



Possessed of an easy independence, and 

 a contented mind, his loftiest aspirations 

 seemed to be directed to becoming familiar 

 with the fraternity to which I belonged; 

 and his principal pleasure was derived from 

 acting in the same capacity at Cambridge as 

 Bishop Atterbury, as I have elsewhere termed 

 him, did at Oxford, though not from the 

 same motives. This gave him an opportu- 

 nity of selecting and appointing the men to 

 drive for the particular establishment which 

 he ostensibly owned or superintended ; and 

 in doing so, one of his invariable conditions 

 was, that they should confine their nether 

 limbs to knee breeches and top-boots. This 

 did not prevent him from mixing with them 

 in public company, into which his convivial 

 disposition would often lead him; and 

 while avoiding anything approaching to 

 business in his conversation, he would 

 display his satirical humour in good- 

 naturedly exposing some of their peculiar 

 foibles. 



