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and, taking the receipted bill from him and putting 

 it into a drawer to keep company with a host of 

 others that I almost fear may not have been receipted, 

 he wished him a good-day, adding, " I tell you what, 



Mr. H , you are a d d bad tailor, and if I 



had thought that you would ever have expected to 

 be paid, by Jove, I would never have employed 

 you ! " 



The General was very fond of horse flesh, in which 

 it delighted him to dabble at times, and he would be 

 almost sure to make a bid for anything, be it ever 

 so rough, that seemed likely to make a horse. 



He never in my recollection rode to hounds, but 

 he was always on the go, and it was most amusing 

 to see him pounding along whenever there was an 

 opportunity of trying a horse. " Such a clever goer 

 now, isn't he a clever goer ? By Jove, he'll make a 

 clever horse ! " I here give you a portrait of him 

 in full cry ; it was done by my father, the late General 

 Birch Reynardson, and is a faithful likeness of him, 

 and his seat, under the exciting circumstances. 



He was uncommonly fond of a bit of horse-dealing, 

 and if he got hold of a screw, which sometimes hap- 

 pened to him, as it does also in these more wide-awake 

 days, he was a first-rate hand at getting rid of it. 



