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the spot if they were expected to produce them, in 

 addition to their buckskin breeches. Depend upon 

 it, they were the smart thing, and the present dirty 

 old tanned glove, which is so much worn by both 

 masters and men, is the unsmart thing. Only imagine 

 a huntsman or whip, a coachman or groom, a footman, 

 or even second footman, appearing on duty in those 

 days in shilling dogskin gloves, or the footman on a 

 well-appointed carriage in anything but top-boots and 

 milk-white buckskin gloves ; and thus equipped he 

 would travel by the side of the lady's maid, in the 

 rumble or dickey, behind the carriage from London 

 to York, and even further, perhaps to Scotland, 

 without thinking it a hardship; the lady's maid of 

 those days knowing nothing of the inside of a carriage 

 by the side of her mistress, and the footman never 

 having heard of a railroad, and going inside a second- 

 class, with foot-warmers, padded seat, and a lamp to 

 read his newspaper or novel by, and drinking his 

 glass of pale sherry at many of the stations. 



Such were the habits of olden days, and they 

 were, in my idea, to be commended, as far as 

 appearance went. 



The hounds have arrived on the scene, with old 

 George Slack as huntsman, Jack Lambert as first 



