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into many entertaining portions of his history, answered 

 all my questions con amove, and with perfect good nature, 

 as to the mode of trainings hitting- so as not to injure the 

 hand, wrestling, and other minutiae of tlie ring ; passing 

 the claret and slicing the pine, as if foaled at Knowsley 

 or Brethy. He had a quiet, sly way of joking on any 

 turf affair, on which, hear in mind, he was as au fait as 

 Zamiel making a hook for the Derhy. The turhot came 

 from Billingsgate hy express, and the haunch from his 

 own park. Moet purveyed the champagne, Marjoribanks 

 the port, and, as I have before said, Griffiths the Lafitte. 

 We had no skulking host, be assured, but the most enter- 

 taining and liberal one alike." There is a genial tone 

 about this sketch, that tells at once for its truth ; and it 

 would be difficult to give any man a better character. 

 We ourselves have not attempted to blot out the earlier 

 chapters in Mr, Gully's eventful life, feeling as we do that 

 they only add point and force to the effect of his subse- 

 quent career. His position at every turn and phase of 

 fortune was still a trying one ; but no man more fairly 

 earned the respect he gained. There is a very moral of 

 good manners in such a man's history. 



