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are lodged in the second story of one wing 
of the quadrangle, and a pleasant residence 
it is too, for flowers were blooming in the 
windows, and many elegancies there that any 
person of taste could not but delight in. 
Here we found a pretty fair lot of racing 
nags, and some capital hunters, and after 
viewing the gardens, delighted with this 
princely estate, we rode home through a late 
purchase of the duke of Newcastle, where a 
large body of laborers were ditching and lay¬ 
ing down tiles for draining in an extensive 
meadow, and further on our way, we passed 
the ruins of a fine old Abbey church on the 
borders of Worksop. 
Upon getting back, we found our friend 
H. had arrived, and was waiting us ; so after 
a late dinner, we set out for his hospitable 
mansion. This was built by the St. Legers ; 
it is large and roomy, with octagonal projec¬ 
tions, and plenty of out buildings in quad¬ 
rangles in the rear, enclosing ample court 
yards. The door of the library opens into a 
large old-fashioned garden, with turf walks, 
trim box borders, formal fish-pond, conserva¬ 
tories, grass terraces, a venerable sundial, 
and high brick walls on three sides, to which 
fruit-bearing espaliers are trained all round. 
The garden was full of flowers, fruits, and 
vegetables; and as we are particularly fond 
of the two former, his kind and accomplished 
lady, regaled us morning, noon,and evening, 
with the second, and every night in our sleep¬ 
ing apartment, we found a large bouquet of 
the first, fresh gathered by her own fair hands, 
and adorning the pier table. Such things 
may be called trifles, but they add greatly to 
the pleasures and happiness of life. We had 
then passed about two months of most fa¬ 
tiguing travel, and were glad at last, to meet 
for a few days, with the agreeable repose 
furnished us at Park Hill, and accordingly 
while staying there, took matters quite easily; 
sauntering over the farm, patting the dogs, 
eyeing the game, examining crops, handling 
the cattle, settling the merits of a cart-horse 
or hunter, and taking lessons in general upon 
English agriculture. 
On the third day of our stay here, Mr. H. 
proposed a visit to Wiseton, a few miles off, 
the seat of the celebrated Earl Spencer, to 
look at his stock of Short-horns. To this 
we most gladly assented, and he ordered out 
his fine black American trotter, hitched him 
to a two-wheeled chaise of Massachusetts 
fashion, which we think was also imported, 
and thus Americanised, away the high spirit¬ 
ed animal tramped with a free and easy ac¬ 
tion over the beautiful MacAdam roads of old 
England, rapidly passing everything which 
we encountered along the road, without an 
effort, just by way of giving John Bull an 
exemplification of the Yankee go-ahead prin¬ 
ciple. 
There is a most excellent road law here, 
which we could wish much to see adopted 
in America; and that is, to pass all you meet 
to the left instead of the right. And this is 
much more agreeable to common sense and 
convenience, and avoids danger very fre¬ 
quently ; for if the teamster be walking along¬ 
side of his cattle, and do not leave them en¬ 
tirely, he is in danger of being crushed or 
injured, between his own and the wheels of 
the vehicle he meets; and besides, the driver 
always sitting at the right hand can more easily 
guard against striking the axles of his wheels 
when he passes to the left, which is a matter 
of no small importance in a crowded or nar¬ 
row thoroughfare. We wish our city and 
state authorities would bring their attention 
to this subject, and alter the law of the road, 
making the left in reality the right, as we re¬ 
collect once seeing expressed in an odd stan¬ 
za of a rhyming wit. 
The rule of the road is a paradox quite, 
In riding or driving along: 
If you keep to the left, you are sure to go right , 
If you keep to the right, you go ivrong . 
We had an introduction to Earl Spencer, 
at the Yorkshire Agricultural Show, and it 
was much to our regret to learn upon arriv¬ 
ing at his seat, that he had left the day pre- 
| vious for London, to move the address to the 
| Queen in the House of Lords, at the opening 
1 of Parliament. Mr. Hall, the steward, we 
found at home, however, and he quite politely 
showed the estate and the whole herd of 
Short-horns. Earl Spencer has really some 
excellent animals, and has generally been 
successful in obtaining prizes for them at the 
great annual shows of fat cattle in the Smith- 
field market. Mr. Hall informed us that the 
Earl disliked exhibiting at the Agricultural 
Shows, so long as the public taste demanded 
loading animals with so much flesh, as he did 
not wish to endanger his breeders by over 
feeding for such exhibitions. Among his 
stock we saw several descendants of the fa¬ 
mous bull Firby, figured by Youatt in his 
work upon British cattle. Judging from these, 
he must have been a superior animal, and 
upon the whole we were highly gratified with 
a view of the stock. Earl Spencer is cer¬ 
tainly a judicious and scientific breeder, and 
an eminent practical as well as theoretical 
agricultor. 
