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Castle, where six-and-twenty years ago tlie present 

 Emperor of the French looked on through the three 

 wet days, and the Duchess of Somerset was the Queen 

 of Beauty. 



Thither came among the rest Sir Francis Hopkins, 

 the Knight of the Burning Tower, on a bay; the lord 

 of the tournament, with his golden armour, on a ches- 

 nut; Lord Waterford, in steel armour, with six 

 esquires ; Lord Ailsa, Knight of the Dolphin ; Cap- 

 tain Fairlie, Knight of the Golden Lion; Mr. Camp- 

 bell of Saddle, of whom Tom Ingoldsby would aver 

 that he was 



" Somehow knocked out of his family seat ;" 



and Lord Glenlyon, as Knight of the Gael, with 

 fieventy-two Highlanders, who guarded the tilting- 

 ground, and, with boundless beef and ale under 

 their belts, still sighed for their wonted porridge. 



The foxhounds are made up of purchases from the 

 Southampton, Mr. Drake's, and the North Warwick- 

 shire packs, and drafts from the South Warwickshire, 

 the Doneraile, and the Yarborougb. There are 58 

 couple for three or four days a week, and they always run 

 them mixed. We noticed the smutty-faced Frantic; 

 the short-legged Heroine; Tempest, with a head 

 telling of Drake's Duster; Cheerful, with all the 

 Belvoir quality; a nice Dainty; Duchess, sister to 

 Dashaway ; and Dauntless, with some of the Baker 

 blood about her, and a great taste for roe deer. 

 Doneraile's Transit was another of the Drake's 



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