FULL CRY. 



" If your horse be vroll bred and in condition, 

 Botli up to tlie country and up to your weigbt, 

 Oh I then give the reins to your youthful ambition, 

 Sit down in the saddle, and keep his head straight." 



QUITE right, Mr. Warburton, no man can do better than tliat ; and a great many, we 

 arc sorry to say, do a great deal worse. If all the grnmblers and growlers in the world 

 woidd take the old sqiiirc's advice, it would mend both their manners and their tempers. 

 Ko one can be in an ill-hnmour alter a brilliant tifty minutes, especially when he 

 feels that both he and his horse have acquitted themselves creditably. Even that 

 little bill with which Ruffles persistently calls once a week, notwithstanding repeated 

 assurances that you are travelling on the Continent, is then forgotten. And you quite 

 lose sight of the idea that your mother-in-law, with a pug dog, two monkeys, and a 

 paiTot, has promised to come and pass a month with you, and will most likely put in an 

 appearance when you have about half done dinner that very evening. Banks may stop 

 payment in the Citv, but so long as they prove sound in tlie country, and don't let you 

 into the second ditch, you heed it not ; and railway shares may fall to any extent so that 

 your favourite Locomotive only keeps on his legs and going Talk about Christian charity, 

 when is it called forth to the same extent as during a "quick thing?" Why, there is the 

 man on the white-faced chestnut going a cracker, who has forgotten the five ponies to 

 one he laid you against Blue Gown for the last Perby, yet to save your life you would 

 not remind him of it now. A man who has such a "steady seat, light-bridle hand, and 

 takes what providence sends him in such a cool way, must have good stuff in hun ; and. 

 for the time at least, vou make up your mind to repudiate the debt altogether. Look 

 at the farmer in grceu, bundling along his short-tailed gray ; what does he care though 

 corn did foil five shillings a quarter last market-day, and that there is no chance of a repeal 

 of the malt-tax ? " Come along, you can't do any harm," says he, as he jumps first into 

 his own wheat ; and not the slightest idea of the carpenter's bill enters his head as he 

 sees you, Hopeful, knock a new gate into "smithereens," and come a most royal crowner on 

 the other side. He would do anything now for you save stop, and take it as a decided 

 favour if you pulled on one side to let him break a strong rail. Should you indiscreetly, 

 dm-ing a slight check, ask after the welfare of his lambs, he will tell you that the puppy 

 he gained the cup with, is by Eegulus out of Novelty, and ran right to head for the first 

 twenty minutes, and that though Scarlet, the huntsman, went strong for neighbour 

 Jackson's, his own won easily, and was not only straighter, with better feet, but cleaner 

 about the neck and shoulders. How cheerily the old squire speaks to him, though they 

 have had a little difference concerning the way-rate, " Capital thing. Turnips," says he, 

 wiping his head and face ; " rather too quick for us old ones, though. Ah, by-the-b)-e, 

 bring your gun up to the Hall to-morrow. Barnes says the rabbits are getting strong 

 in Beechwood, so we must kill them down, and I have told Gripein he should hear 

 what you have to say about the new barn. I think we must put you one up." 



There is onlv one uuhappv man in the field, and that is Colchicum, the brewer, 

 who rides as jealoiislv as the fiend, and finds his new three-hundred-guinea gray, which has 



