It is also a grand manouvre; to intoxicate a Johnny Raw, and to astonish his weak mind with admiration for the founder of the feast.

Therefore, the old trick of 'I have got some particularly high-flavoured Burgundy, which Lord Lavender very much approved t'other day;' and, 'Might I, Sir, ask your opinion of a new importation of Sillery ?' or, 'My Lord, 1 have bought all the Nabob's East India Madeira,' &c.

was successfully practised.
"Through the first course we were stag-hunting, to a man, and killed the stag just as the second course came on the table.

This course was occupied by a great number of long shots of Sir M.M., and by Lavender offering to back himself and the buck Parson against any other two ~219~~men in England, as to the number of head of game which they would bag from sun-rise to sun-set upon the moors.

A foot race, and a dispute as to the odds betted on the second October Meeting, occupied the third course.