Take, for example, Messrs.
Spavin and Cockspur.
A specimen or two of the above sort of young fellows may be found, I believe, at most Clubs.

They know nobody.

They bring a fine smell of cigars into the room with them, and they growl together, in a corner, about sporting matters.

They recollect the history of that short period in which they have been ornaments of the world by the names of winning horses.

As political men talk about 'the Reform year,' 'the year the Whigs went out,' and so forth, these young sporting bucks speak of TARNATION'S year, or OPODELDOC'S year, or the year when CATAWAMPUS ran second for the Chester Cup.