10 THE SPORTING WORLD. 



his seven wonders of the world, by some maiden 

 lady,' a former schoolfellow of his wife's, who 

 sticks to them like a bur for the three days' 

 convenience of their tea and toast, saying nothing 

 of a friendly dropping in on other days, just 

 half-an-honr before dinner, knowing that dear 

 Sophy or dear Charley has a cold ; if the 

 wife has the slightest touch of head-ache she 

 takes possession of the house, installing herself 

 as nurse gratuituously, for which the husband 

 is expected to be most grateful in having a 

 tenth inmate ; then the my dearing, and dear 

 Marying, and various the reciprocating Susaning to 

 each other as they did twenty years back, recals 

 to the husband's mind that it is in another way 

 rather a dear bargain the keeping the lady 

 when she was in no way wanting. Now to 

 expect that to all these agremens he is to 

 add Field Sports would be quite unreasonable, 

 it would be taxing the beneficence of Fate too 

 much. So the young lady we suppose to be on 



