The desert was enlivened by a list of ladies of all descriptions, whose characters were cut up full as ably as the haunch of venison was carved; and here boasting of success in love was as general as the custom is base.

One man of fashion goes by the name of Kiss and tell.
"After an hour of hard drinking, as though it had been for a wager, a number of very manly, nice little innocent and instructive amusements were resorted to.

We had a most excellent maggot race for a hundred; and then a handycap for a future poney race.

We had pitching a guinea into a decanter, at which the young one lost considerably.

We had a raffle for a gold snuff box, a challenge of fifty against Lord Lavender's Dusseldorf Pipe, and five hundred betted upon the number of shot to be put into a Joe Manton Rifle.