The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-04-25

a sovereign or two.
What should you recommend for long
shot at the Derby nowY l only put on a sove-
reign or two; SO must have your twenty or
ive-and-twenty to one you see. It's no use
backing favorite at seven or eight to one;"
and looked mysterious.
"YOu're quite right" replied he; and l
made sure had hit upon his new occupation.
81 should say Marksman, if were you. You'll
get about twenty-five to one, and be sure to
have a run for your money, if the horse is all
right. Besides it's better to stand bit of
themper than rank bad 'un." Right this
time, thought |, at all events.
"And so you find it answer pretty we'll do
your inquired |, after pause; ''the associa-
tions are not pleasant, that's the worst of it.n
GLOW do you mean !' said he, evidently all
abroad
81 mean the associations of the turf are not
pleasant, though | dare say there's good bust
ness to be done there. l understood you to
say you had been living on it lately"
"l-living on the turf? No, not exactly,
my good fellow. Pve been writing for the
magazines; and though do the racing article
for the PdH Mall Gazette, l can hardly be said
to have gone upon the turf"
''Well, certainly not, - said /, considerably
relieved, though somewhat surprised; for 1
should have called his occupation anything
but living on his wits, to Judge by his pro
ductions.
| said that Dick Whistler was an acuuaint-
ance OF long standing-so he Isl and one of
those men whose success in life is worth a
study, If only as a curiosity. 1t can hardly
be recommended as a model for imitation. As
boy at school he always lived by his wits, so
to 81 leak; that is, without any of the exter-
nails of other boys, he was always on par
with them. In the matter of clothes, parents,
parcels, and exercises, there seemed to be
about Dick a great family insolvency. No
body came to see him, nobody gave him
tips, nobody sent him hampers but
he managed to have friends, money, and
pudding He was most essentially good
humored, and endowed with a tact which
never made him an enemy. | think he tried to
write verses, in order that he might do other
boys exercises but poetG naScitm non tit, so
he got his own done, and apologized. He had
even then talent for being among the ''big
fellows" and the habit has stuck to him
through life.
heard of Dick Whistler at Cambridge.
don't know how he got there, or who sent him
there. | never saw anybody who did know.
He had no scholarship, nor fellowship, nor
anything else, excepting friendship, to keep
him atloat. He worked that ship, copper
bottomed A l, pretty well. He took care to
be seen always with good men; and although
those were the days of rollicking, drinking,
undergraduates, who left copes,
and stoles, and chasubles and fancy vest
ments to their betters, Dick Whistler left the
with a creditable testamotr and not
overburdened with debt. This part of his
career did him great credit, and paid in the
long run remarkably well. His wits were not
woOl-gathering then.
When he came to London, hard work ought
to have been his portion. 1t was all he had.
So he took chambers in the Temple as a near
approach to learning. He was next thing to
clever fellow, to more clever fellows than
one, An embryo chancellor was on his stair
case, and the future Master of the Rolls lived
opposite to him. AS to Dick, he was to be
seen any day on some good-looking hack, not
his own, capering or soberly walking in the
park, according to circumstances. He accom-
modated himself, too, to the club gridiron and
a pint of stout, or to French menu and Meets
very fine dry, with the same good humor. He
never was without the one or the other, aud
he tried to look as if he didn't care which, and
almost succeeded. He had grown up into
rather good-loolling man, of easy, if not
polished manners; and he knew his company,
and how to treat it collectively and individu-
ally. Whatever he had went for pocket
money and personal expenses. In these
he never affected great luxury; and if he
had two hundred year, he made them do
the duty of six, at the very least. He was
we'll received by the swells, whom he knew;
and he made an excellent living at this time
out of his wits.
81 don't think you ever hunt, Whistler ?"
said my friend Tom Brampston to him, as he
was strolling up st. James street one fine
October afternoon.
"No, don't, Tom, ," replied he; "can't afford
it."
"Money well laid out in your case. Pm
sure Woodcraft would ask you down. if you
did; only he doesn't know what to do with
men who don't ride in the winter So Dick
meditated on these things, and thought he
| might as well visit Lord WOodcraft twice in
the year as once. Dick did not know much about
| hunting, but thought he could do as other
| people, in which he was not far wrong. He left
his dress to his tailor, and his horsefesh to the
dealer, in whom he implicitly trusted. He
tired couple of good screws, and carried
them INTO the borders of Lord Woodcraft's S
hunt.
What sort of quarters have you got, Whist
Ter, at Noman's Land; do they do you pretty
well 2" inquired my lord.
The cookery is not quite equal to the Trois
Freres," said Dick.
mo; should think not. It's a pure British
public nothing more. You've got your OWL
claret down, suppose 20
"Well-no. | didn't intend to indulge il
luxuriesi but must send up to town
u, IL tell you what you'd better do-come tC
me for a month"
THAT'S very good of you; but where shall
find stabingY' Dick had heard Woodcraf
say hundred times that he never took il
dealers horses.
''Stabling-oh we've plenty of horses
Send these devils back to town. We shall hun
at WoOdmanscroft on Tuesday and you cal
come on afterwards | need not say that Dicl