STABLE-TALK AND TABLE-TALK, 



&c. &c.. 



SCENES IN THE LIFE OF A SPORTING 



ROUE. 



" Pray, Pettatt," said a man, whose dress at once 

 showed hhn to be the head of an aristocratic stable 

 estabhshment, to one who, from his appearance, might 

 be a doctor, attorney, tradesman, or, what he really 

 was, a valet, " has our governor got into any more 

 property than he had ?" 



" Can't say," replied the other; " but I know he has 

 got out of a good deal that he had." 



" Why, how is it, then," said the knight of the 

 currycomb ; " I have seven more horses under my care 

 than I have ever had here. Master has taken this 

 house, that is twice as big as the last, furnished it in 

 slap-up style, and, according to your account, the 

 champagne goes down as fast as you can get it up : this 

 looks like going the pace, at all events." 



" I tell you what it is, Dawson," said Pettatt ; " I 

 believe you are first rate as a stud groom, and, when 

 horses are for sale, don't want any dealer to give you 

 a lesson ; but as to the ways of life, you know no 

 more of them than the child unborn; you are not 

 fit to go alone, and if I went with you about the 



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