CONTENTS ix 



PAGF. 



Lesser One — The Peer — A Member of Parliament and 

 Whipper-in — A Star of the First Magnitude — Dido- 

 Eevenge — Poor Attempt at Wit — Norfolk Baronet — How 

 to Eemedy an Error — ^Swell Mobsman— Personality — A 

 Trio — Ludicrous Accident . . . . . .131 



CHAPTEE VIII 



Another Change — Town and Gown — Lawyers — A Literary 

 Barrister — Barnwell — Politics and Eeligion — An Unlucky 

 Blow — A Post Captain and his Wife — An Original 

 Character— A Member of the Cloth— Fifty-two Miles 

 from London — Select Party — Glass of Wine — The Eing 

 — A Sporting Baronet — Strange Customer — -Death of a 

 Gladiator — -The Double Dandy — Chance Set-to — Merit 

 Eewarded .......... 156 



CHAPTEE IX 



An old English Gentleman — Liberal Patron — Good Workman 

 — Gift Horse — Mr. Earey — Epsom Downs — Finished 

 Gentleman — A Week's Holiday — Stag Hounds — A Somer- 

 sault : Pleasing Eesult — Mournful Cavalcade — Strange 

 Talk — Ludicrous Incident — -Turn-up between Two Dogs 

 — Collision— A New Feature — The Chancellor's Medal- 

 Novel Title — A Pleasant Eeception — Contrast — A Field 

 Marshal — Vain Attempt — Another Avocation . . . 186 



CHAPTEE X 



The Craft — One Good Turn — Another— Compensation — Eail- 

 roads — Eastern Counties — Norfolk Farming — The Eccen- 

 trics — Strange Company — A Tete-a-tete — Publicola — A 

 Constitutional Lawyer — Stand-up Fight — Two Polished 

 Gentlemen — Dilemma — Celebrated Duellist — Bold Stroke 

 — Lucky Escape— The Fall of the Curtain . . . 214 



Postscript 233 



Appendix 236 



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