336 INCONGRUITIES. 



poor fellow, sent there for purloining a loaf for a 

 famishing family, would not have money or interest 

 with the worthy functionaries in charge of him to 

 obtain. 



But let any sensible man look at this advertise- 

 ment, and reflect a moment, he may save himself the 

 trouble of going : the incongruity of the thing must 

 strike him. Is it likely a gentleman who had been 

 hunting with the Kilkenny and Garrison Hounds 

 would bring horses from where they were known to 

 London, where they are not ? The members of those 

 Hunts, and the gentlemen who hunt with them, must 

 have changed their nature very much from what they 

 ever have been, if they let really good hunters escape 

 them. Then, of all places, Bloomsbury ! If I wanted 

 an attorney GOD forbid one should want me! I 

 might look there for him : or, if I wished to find a 

 piano or dancing master (a cheap one), hot rolls, or 

 (now) hot potatoes, I might go to the purlieus about 

 Golden Square for them ! but for a hunter, I should 

 as soon look for a zebra at Almack's. Yet people do 

 go ! Well, it's all the same to me whether they go or 

 not : but they will not find it all the same to them. 



We have seen quite enough of these sort of gentry ; 

 but really the ramifications from their genealogical 

 stem are so varied and extensive, that I really believe 

 all the honest men in England could stand under the 

 shade of one of these noble denizens of their forest ; 

 and here comes a collateral branch. 



This is one of those meddling sort of gentlemen to 

 be found in London, and particularly in every pro- 

 vincial town in England where the horse trade is 

 carried on extensively enough to make it worth 

 their residence. We will call this gentleman Mr. 



