158 FAVOURED CLASS. 



Addressing the boy, he said : 

 "You are not to go without an an- 

 swer ? " 

 "No, sir." 

 " Stop one minute and you shall have 



one." 



Sitting down at the instant he wrote : 



"DEAR JACK, May the difference of 

 opinion never alter friendship ! " 



I think the great Sheridan never eclipsed 

 this prompt and apt repartee. 



But this was not the only member of the 

 profession who attracted the notice of either 

 Town or Gown ; for if we may judge from 

 the manner in which their society was 

 courted, they must have been regarded as a 

 favoured class. Indeed, some one thought 

 us worthy the distinguished honour of being 

 named individually, in a little production 

 of one of the Colleges, entitled " Fifty-two 

 Miles from London," that appeared in a 

 well-known weekly Sporting paper. In this 

 the habits of each particular dragsman, as 



