... We had been playing all the evening at whist. Our stake bad been gold mrohur points, and twenty on the rubber. Maxey, who is always lucky, bad won five consecutive bumpers, which lent a self-satisfied smile to his countenance, and made us, the losers, look anything but pleased, when be suddenly cbanged countenance, and hesitated to play; this the more surprised us, since be was one who seldom ...

... THE VALU1? OP POPULARITY. I raised a four-year-old colt once, half-blood, a perfect J picture of a horse, and a geauine clipper, could gallop like S the wind; a real daisy, a perfect doll, had an eye like a weasel, and nostril like Commodore Rogers's speakin trumpet. Well, I took it down to the races at New York, and father he went along with me; for, says he, Sam, you fi don't know everything ...

... 'u5 trid The following graphic sketch of a panther hunt is from Re-a late novel called ' Makanna, or the land of the Savage,' the lor scene of which is laid in the southern portion ef Africa ef ais. Hold back ! that howl betokens harm P' fa !ell Yes, by Jove, the dog will bleed to death ! That hind Ig- leg's broken, and the throat torn to the shoulder-bone I' al the 'Stand back I the ...

... On the Q8th of October, 1815, the hounds belonging to the Newry bunt started a fox at Tainary. After a ahort b. chase reynard disappeared, having cunningly mounted a ai iturfstack, on the top of which he lay down flat. Finding ft himself at last perceived by one of the hounds, he left his t) retreat, closely pursued by tbe pack. Being. again hard F' pressed, lie ran up a stone ditch, from ...

... WORLD WE LIVE IN. NO. .XVII. , THE - I . Who does Aot know sweet Lee, in Kent, and, likewise, that it is the plsoe to whicb, at different periods of the I year, many thousaids of'the unfledged sportsmen of modern 3 Babylon repair to practise the destroying art upon the in- nocent fowls of the air t Numerous have been the heroes who have dis'layed their prowess in 'the fields adjoining Ithe ...