MR.

PUFFINGTON'S DOMESTIC ARRANGEMENTS Perhaps it was fortunate that Mr.Bragg did take the kennel management upon himself, or there is no saying but what with that and the house department, coupled with the usual fussiness of a bachelor, the Sponge visit might have proved too much for our master.

The notice of the intended visit was short; and there were invitations to send out, and answers to get, bedrooms to prepare, and culinary arrangements to make--arrangements that people in town, with all their tradespeople at their elbows, can have no idea of the difficulty of effecting in the country.

Mr.Puffington was fully employed.
In addition to the parties mentioned as asked in his note to Lord Scamperdale, viz.

Washball, Charley Slapp, and Lumpleg, were Parson Blossomnose; Mr.Fossick of the Flat Hat Hunt, who declined--Mr.Crane of Crane Hall; Captain Guano, late of that noble corps the Spotted Horse Marines; and others who accepted.