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other a most agreeable man. It is quite clear, then, that 

 similarity of sentiment and congeniality of mind are not 

 absolutely necessary for people getting on well together in this 

 world. We believe brandy and baccy unite more people in 

 friendship than anything else. 



To see Pigskin in perfection, the reader should visit him at 

 home — see him when he returns after hunting, in all the joyous 

 abandon of a good run, to his snow-white cloth, strong soup, 

 strong ale, and beefsteak pudding. See him in his comfort- 

 able woollens and slippers, in his round-backed chair, pipe and 

 spit bo.\. See him in his snug room, with fox-brush bell-pulls 

 at either side of the bright fire, sporting prints on the walls, 

 and " Bell's Life " on the table. 



The Quarterly Review Hunt, by Aiken, after Apperly, that 

 occupy the place of honour about the middle of the wall, have 

 their story and association with the sport. Peter having come 

 to London to see the lions, was riding loosely and leisurely 

 down Regent Street one afternoon, after a heavy shower had 

 rendered his namesake, Peter Laurie's abomination, the wood 

 pavement, more slippery than usual, when his horse suddenly 

 fell, shooting Peter Pigskin with his head heavily against a 

 dust cart wheel. Stunned with the blow, he was carried 

 insensible into Mr. Ackermann's well-known Eclipse Sporting 

 Gallery, and extended on the floor amidst all the sporting 

 pictures and representations of scenes that living he loved so 

 well. Every attention that kindness or surgical skill could 

 suggest was offered ; but poor Pigskin exhibited no sj-mptoms 

 of returning animation. At last the still pause betokening 

 the exhaustion of all the remedies and the extinction of all 

 hope ensued, and the lately bustling attendants gradually 

 subsided into calm meditative spectators. Peter had not 

 moved since he was brought in. The medical man took his 

 leave with a solemn air, saying, he would return within an 

 hour, the doors connecting the picture gallery with the shop 



