he emerged into the streets in the evening with the absolute certain that the next settling day would leave him either hopelessly or y prosperous it all depended upon s what could he possibly have found out at and then suddenly he saw a newspaper boy fasten a upon a lamp post and a uttle crowd had gathered round it m an instant one of them waved his hat in the air another shouted to a across the street hurried up and b a shadow before caught a glimpse of the between two heads � france was on germany by jove i cried old right after all l the king of the it was after hunting dinner and there were as many scarlet coats as black ones round the table the conversation over the had turned therefore in the direction of horses and with reminiscences of runs where had led the pack om end to end of a county and hem overtaken at last by two or three hounds and a on foot while every rider in the field had been as the port the runs longer and more until we had the inquiring their way and failing to understand the dialect of the people who answered them the too became more eccentric and we had up which were dragged bv the out of horses and which had through an open door and gone to ground in a s bonnet box the master had told one or two tall reminiscences and when he cleared his throat for another we were all curious for he was a bit of an artist in his way and produced his effects in a his ce wore the earnest practical severely accurate expression which some of his finest efforts it was before i was master said he sir charles had the hounds at that time and then afterward they passed to old and then to me it may possibly have been just after la took them over but my strong impression is that it was in s time that would be early in the � about seventy two i should say the king of the the man i mean has moved to another part of the country but i dare say that some of you can remember was the name � walter or as the people used to call him he was the son of old joe of high and when his father died he came into a very good thing for his only brother was drowned when the so he inherited the whole estate it was but a few hundred acres but it was good land and those were the days of farming besides it was and a farmer without a was a man before the great in wheat came foreign wheat and wire � those are the two curses of this for the one spoils the s work and the other spoils his play this young was a very fine fellow a keen rider and thorough but his head was s little turned at having come when so young into a comfortable fortune and he went the pace for a year or two the lad had no vice in bim but there was a hard drinking set jn the neighbourhood at that time and got drawn in among them and being an ie fellow who liked to do what his friends w� � doing be very soon took to drinking a great deal more than was good for him as a rule a man who takes his exercise may drink as much as he likes in the evening and do himself no very great harm if he will leave it alone during the day had too many friends for that however and it really looked as if the poor chap was going to the bad when a very thing happened which pulled him up with such a sudden jerk that he l the king of the never put his hand upon the neck of a bottle he a which i have noticed in a good many other men that though he was always playing with his own health he was none the less very anxious about it and was extremely if ever he had any trivial symptom being a tough open air fellow who was always as hard as a nail it was seldom that there was anything amiss him but at last the drink began to tell and he woke one morning with his hands shaking and all his nerves like he had been dining at some very wet house the night before and the wine had perhaps been more plentiful than choice at any rate there he was with a tongue like a bath and a head that like an eight day clock he was very at his own condition and he sent for dr of the father of the man who there now had been a great friend of old s and he was very sorry to see his son going to the devil so he improved the occasion by taking his case very seriously and him upon the danger of his ways he shook his head and talked about the possibility of de ot even of if he continued to lead such a life was horribly do you think i am going to get anything of the sort he well really i don t know said the doctor gravely i cannot undertake to say that you are out of danger your is very much out of order at time during the day you might have those grave symptoms of which i warn you the king of the you think i shall be safe by evening if you drink nothing during the day and have no symptoms before evening i think you may consider yourself safe the doctor d a little would he thought do his patient good so he made the most of the matter symptoms may i expect 