I have spent so many agreeable hours at Edgeworth heretofore, that my first visit on leaving London, will be to your hospitable mansion. In the meantime, I beg leave to introduce to you my “Attache,” who will precede me several days. His politics are similar to your own; I wish I could say as much in favour of his humour. His eccentricities will stand in need of your indulgence; but if you can overlook these, I am not without hopes that his originality, quaint sayings, and queer views of things in England, will afford you some amusement. At all events, I feel assured you will receive him kindly; if not for his own merits, at least for the sake of

Yours always,

THE AUTHOR.

To EDMUND HOPKINSON ESQ. Edgeworth, Gloucestershire.

CONTENTS

[ THE SECOND VOLUME. ]

[ CHAPTER I. ] THE NOSE OF A SPY
[ CHAPTER II. ] THE PATRON; OR, THE COW’S TAIL
[ CHAPTER III. ] ASCOT RACES
[ CHAPTER IV. ] THE GANDER PULLING
[ CHAPTER V. ] THE BLACK STOLE
[ CHAPTER VI. ] THE PRINCE DE JOINVILLE’S HORSE
[ CHAPTER VII. ] LIFE IN THE COUNTRY
[ CHAPTER VIII. ] BUNKUM
[ CHAPTER IX. ] THROWING THE LAVENDER
[ CHAPTER X. ] AIMING HIGH
[ CHAPTER XI. ] A SWOI-REE
[ CHAPTER XII. ] TATTERSALL’S OR, THE ELDER AND THE GRAVE DIGGER
[ CHAPTER XIII. ] LOOKING BACK
[ CHAPTER XIV. ] CROSSING THE BORDER
[ CHAPTER XV. ] THE IRISH PREFACE