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in order in some measure to appease them, Mills 

 had to refresh them all liberally. Then, having 

 come out for the day, they did not feel disposed 

 to return immediately, which rendered long and 

 repeated stoppages necessary at divers public-houses, 

 where they seemed to take it as a matter of course 

 that Mills, having brought them out, must provide 

 them with all they chose to have in the way of 

 eating and drinking, till they were landed again in 

 Monmouth. The unfortunate termination of the 

 day's excursion for Mills was that he spent all the 

 money he received for conveying the people on the 

 omnibus from Monmouth and back again, in treating 

 them while they were out in order to quiet and 

 reconcile them to their disappointment, although it 

 was no fault of his. 



No doubt some people will say, ' Sarved him right !' 

 but in those days amusements and sports were looked 

 upon in a diflferent light to what they are now. We 

 need not go many years further back to learn that the 

 prize-ring was patronized by the highest members of 

 the aristocracy, even including royalty. 



Lord Althorp, a great agriculturist — Chancellor of 

 the Exchequer, who brought in the Poor Law Act in 

 1834, under which the present system of poor-law 

 unions was established, and who afterwards succeeded 

 to the title of Earl Spencer — made it a point, in 



