322 A PEEP IN PROSPECTU. 



which I believe all who know him will allow, notwith- 

 standing his extra superfine soap ! 



When I have the honour to meet my reader next, 

 I hope he will not object to go with me to the stables 

 where these pretended lady's horses were advertised. 

 We will then see what game is playing there, and 

 just by way of curiosity, and perhaps also of get- 

 ting a wrinkle, take a look at the locality where 

 these nonpareils of horses "the property of a 

 Lady," are to be seen. Now, as we do not consider 

 ourselves yokels of the first water, but men who 

 know something of the world's ways, we will on 

 entering the stable cast our critical eye round, 

 to see how far Eascal and Co. have had the tact or 

 opportunity of putting everything in keeping with 

 the pretty little piece of humbug they propose carry- 

 ing on ; for it is in the minutiae of these things this 

 sort of gentry, acute as they are, generally fail ; in 

 fact, do not carry the thing through. Perhaps they 

 consider that the man who sleeps with one eye open, 

 do what they will, is not to be had ; and that those 

 who keep both on the full stretch, and yet see nothing, 

 will not notice these little discrepancies, as some people 

 look at a picture, which, provided the green " is bright 

 enough, and the yellow golden enough," cannot see 

 the want of keeping in the tout ensemble. 



I conclude a something of this opinion actuates the 

 manager and actor in our equestrian spectacles, when 

 the attempt at the personification of a sportsman is 

 made to give effect to the song, 



" Hie-ho Chevy, this day a stag must die ! " 



Now (by way of parenthesis) let me observe in the 

 first place, that with gentlemen who don the pink the 

 idea does not suggest itself that the stag must die ; 



