" TAKE HIM ALL IN ALL, WE SHALL NOT LOOK," &C. 327 



he lias heard a sportsman's dress should be easy 

 (m this I quite agree with him) ; so he carries it to 

 his boots, which are made Avith a nice easy calf to 

 them ; but, to prevent their getting down, they are 

 held up by a strap taking all four of the knee buttons ; 

 so they hang like a travelling carpet-bag hung up by 

 one handle. 



Then the Brummagems : it certainly has been the 

 style for years to wear them drooping on the heel 

 (why, I know not, if they are intended for use) ; but 

 friend " Chevy " does more : he has his under-straps 

 made particularly short; so, from letting the spurs 

 droop "a la mode^^ they look like a pair of Yeomanry 

 formidables, with an extra length of shank to them. 



I think we have now dressed him. Then the ease 

 with which he wears his harness, and harness it is to 

 him : for a man unaccustomed to wear top-boots and 

 breeches moves as much at home in them as I should 

 in the dress of a Deal boatman ; but such as he is, 

 there he is. 



Prelude of horns — during which "Chevy" takes 

 the accustomed walk backwards and forwards: all 

 singers do ; so do the leopards and panthers in Womb- 

 well's cages. The eleven-months-in-the-year inhabit- 

 ants of London are satisfied they have seen the heau- 

 ideal of a foxhunter, and the facsimile of the Marquis 

 of Waterford, or some such an out-and-outer. Ye 

 Gods ! the Marquis dressed to mount Yellow Dwarf 

 like such a thing ! " Name it not in Gath," still less in 

 Melton. 



" Chevy " now sings his song, and if he would leave 

 out the " halloos," and keep his enormous whip quiet, 

 he would doubtless acquit himself well in this part of 

 the business. Having done so, the manager treats 



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