... animal that old William Cobbett made his Rural Rides through the counties of England, pen in hand, fulminating against the Whigs and their Corn Laws. The cob was not yet quite a gentleman; though now a riding horse, he was still collar-marked. But he was ...

... extract the concluding linos Hunt not, fish not, shoot not, Dance not, fiddle not, flute not. What e'er you do eschew the Whigs, And stay at home and mind the pigs. And above all it is my particular desire That at least once a week you dine with the Squire ...

... straight, however, it seemed tolerably certain that Lobau would win, which he did by a length and a half. The unreliable Mask and Whig was third, Rich Strike fourth and Apple Peel fifth, though not, I think, disgraced. Bryan O'Linn had won by a neck over this ...

... opposition and won as he liked by fifteen lengths. Jack Anthony was apparently keen on the chances of the sluggish Mask and Whig, who was backed by some optimists, as was Frank Hartigan's charge, Honquan. I could not see, however, how anything could have ...

... voracious child. He commenced his education in a boarding school at Walthamstow, under the direction of Mr. Macfarlan, one of the Whig historians of the reign of George III., a school which nearly a generation later retained its existence and repute. He thus ...

... was a badge of Royal service and loyalty, and, as such, gave the entry into every loyal country house in districts where the Whigs and Coven anters had given trouble. The fox-hunter's pink was but a survival of the loyal gentleman's and the officer's attire ...

... agriculture had been essen tially protectionist and had operated through levies on imports. It was only under pressure from Whig industrialists that the Corn Laws were repealed and protection thrown out in order to keep industrial wages down with cheap ...

... When George in pudding-time came o'er, And moderate men looked big, sir, A cat-in-pan I turned once more And so became a Whig, sir And thus preferment I procured From our new faith's defender, And almost every day abused The Pope and the Pretender. ...

... characters more fiercely than the political and lineal descendants of those who were Tories before that party took to dishing the Whigs. Had not this unfortunate connection existed between the horse supply and the farmers, the army would have been put upon a ...

... establishment in the Greater Britain, and its auccea with both civil and military aspirants was quite marvellous. Under the whig of the All Ireland Polo Club several healthy little colonies of poloists became dotted about the island, forming centres round ...

... however, that the Victorian Prime Ministers were only following in the footsteps of many of their predecessors in office, Whigs and Tories alike, in their support of the Turf. There was a Marquis of Rockingham who held the post as long ago as 1765, and ...

... year after George I. came to the throne. He was lucky enough to amass a fortune, and when he died, endeared to watermen and Whigs, left a sum of money to continue the race. Broughton, who exercised the calling of a jolly young waterman before he became ...